Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [adj] for it " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is kind in you to make such a pretence , but I saw the compassion in your face , and I am grateful for it .
2 ‘ Well , I am sorry for it but there is nothing I can do .
3 PAMELA : [ formally ] I am sorry for it , sir .
4 I am sorry for it . ’
5 ‘ If I have offended you , ’ Jotan said in a voice which was filled with disarming sincerity , ‘ I am sorry for it . ’
6 He said : ‘ I feel I am ready for it although it has only come along because Stuart is injured .
7 Revulsion at the thought that I am responsible for it .
8 I am aware of that and I 'm sorry for it .
9 I 'm sorry for it
10 ‘ I 'm happy to be seized upon now because it 's in a positive , rather than desperate way and I 'm ready for it , ’ continues the chap who puts the ‘ entertain ’ into ‘ entertainment ’ .
11 " Good , I 'm ready for it , too . "
12 But it would be a big change , and I do n't know that I 'm ready for it yet .
13 Yeah , it has to be on a day when I 'm ready for it
14 While advocates of community policing express confidence in its ability to effect improvements ( Alderson 1979 , 1982 ; Scarman 1981 ) , research contradicts this by pointing to resistance from those constables who are responsible for it or to organizational constraints ( Fielding et al .
15 When seeking reassurance that a system is safe they study the people who are responsible for it .
16 Now I can advise you in the office under the green form system if you are eligible for it because you you 've got no income coming in and your savings are below one thousand six hundred quid .
17 Yeah and you 're responsible for it .
18 As long as you know you 're responsible for it and as long as Elizabeth knows that she 's gon na do it , that 's not a problem .
19 ‘ This is going to be more difficult than the first match , but I feel we 're ready for it . ’
20 Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful .
21 While the evidence he cites shows that Y-cells may be capable of sustaining some form of pattern vision it does not show that they are responsible for it in the normal brain .
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