Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to free Sycorax without further delay , and Ariel too , though some doubted her allegiance , and were willing to abandon her for carrying the stranger 's child . |
| 2 | With such charm and grace does he distribute his roses among them that it is easy to forgive him for having — alas ! — one rose too few . |
| 3 | Learning from experience is such a fundamental process that it is easy to take it for granted and assume that having experiences and learning from them are synonymous . |
| 4 | It 's easy to take it for granted that we take medication to get better but a child does n't necessarily understand that . ’ |
| 5 | It would be natural to take it for granted that the model and the dress designer were one and the same . |
| 6 | It is primarily organised along the lines of the current OPCS scheme , but it would also be possible to use it for coding to KOS or CODOT . |
| 7 | good to use them for swinging in the trees . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 9 | She did n't think she would ever be able to forgive him for keeping that information from her . |
| 10 | Were we so I should have been happy to kill you for speaking so of my daughter . |
| 11 | Perhaps she even makes more errors in a test than in continuous writing , because not having any context for the words , she is unable to check them for meaning when she reads them over . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems somewhat harsh to criminalise me for doing my best in what were quite exceptional circumstances . ’ |
| 13 | Certainly she seemed inclined to despise him for giving way to her . |
| 14 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 15 | I think we want to be encouraging young people because you told me that they 're all quite keen to do something for Save The Children Fund now it 's the seventy fifth year . |