Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was supposed to be very good for skin problems , but one man was known to have visited it regularly to collect the water for his wife who found it beneficial for her arthritis . |
| 2 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 3 | ‘ He has tried to draft in fresh faces , and found it difficult for them to fit in . |
| 4 | These notices brought clients into local CABx while advisers found themselves unprepared for their enquiries . |
| 5 | A little to my own amazement I found myself happy for them . |
| 6 | Clara , having heard it , lay in bed and trembled , too frightened to cry , and counted herself lucky for her share of lip service . |
| 7 | Grace had tried to persuade John long before to go to ballet classes , because she thought him small for his age and hoped the exercise might encourage growth , but he refused , saying ‘ Oh no , mummy , the boys will call me a sissy . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He felt it foolish for me to do otherwise . |
| 9 | Social justice , according to Belloc , could be attained only by destroying the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few , which bred inevitable contradictions between the values of self-respect and self-help preached in capitalist society and the material condition of the mass of the population which rendered it impossible for them to practice such principles . |
| 10 | The third servant made no attempt to use the gold but dug a hole and kept it safe for his master 's return . |
| 11 | And so he made it easy for me . |
| 12 | ‘ We made it easy for them , ’ said Kendall afterwards . |
| 13 | Malone said , ‘ Made it easy for them to get in . ’ |
| 14 | Watching her now , in this setting , made it easy for him to believe this . |
| 15 | While Nicholson 's experience made it easy for him to contemplate such preparations , the work of the Perkins at King David For indicated that it was unlikely that more than quart quantities of aniline could be prepared safely on the Kennington Road premises . |
| 16 | This made it easy for him to appear younger , simpler and less thinking than he was . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 18 | But she made it easy for him . |
| 19 | She always insisted on doing it herself and that made it easy for you . |
| 20 | In her study of young Asian men and women who were unemployed , Brah notes that sons with widowed mothers felt under particular pressure to support them financially and practically , and when unemployment made it impossible for them to do so they felt ‘ an acute sense of failure ’ as one of her interviewees put it , |
| 21 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 22 | In Capital , Volume 3 Marx noted this trend when he argued that the increasing size of enterprises made it impossible for them to be run by a single person . |
| 23 | Their emphasis on the absolute centrality of heterosexual experience made it impossible for them to see that purity feminism had anything to offer , with its emphasis on celibacy , and its view of sex as male-defined , vicious and depraved . |
| 24 | The wash of a passing collier rocked both boats and the enormous reverberation of her wailing hooter filled the air and made it impossible for them to speak . |
| 25 | The Americans found that the deepening Cold War made it impossible for them to give equal priority to all their objectives . |
| 26 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 27 | He had made no plans : fatigue made it impossible for him to think rationally . |
| 28 | His desire to be always in absolute control made it impossible for him to seek the medical and psychological help he needed and he had no close friends to persuade him . |
| 29 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 30 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |