Example sentences of "very [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say again that it is very odd for me to have to describe all this for you . |
| 2 | And it 's so odd , it 's hard now when somebody says , ‘ What was it like ? ’ or says , ‘ What did she use to wear ? ’ because of course we all saw her all the time and thought nothing of it , saw her at the very least once a week ( missing service , it was called , if you went a week without visiting , and it was certain to be discussed amongst the congregation when you did finally show up ) , it 's just very odd for me to think that you were never there and that this is all strange to you when to us it was just an ordinary life . |
| 3 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 4 | It would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Gustave Flaubert 's feelings by means of such utterances ; but what is the importance of the said gentleman ? ’ |
| 5 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 6 | Some of them were a bit earthy would n't be very proper for me to repeat here . |
| 7 | It 's not very interesting for me to waffle for two hours . |
| 8 | And on the Scottish understanding , it is very easy for somebody to come along and say well jo God just now declares that we are forgiven . |
| 9 | When Leonardo , a cousin who had once wished to marry Emilia , appears intending to get revenge , it is very easy for him to provoke Eustathius 's Othello-like jealousy . |
| 10 | A tremendous talent , but unless things were made very easy for him to get on and do things that he wanted to do , he would lose interest very quickly . |
| 11 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 12 | Many of my school friends know hardly anything about sex and it worries them but mum has made it very easy for me to ask questions . |
| 13 | You 've put me in a position where it would be very easy for me to sabotage your plans . ’ |
| 14 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 15 | It would have been very easy for me to stay there for the rest of my life . |
| 16 | And I know it 's very easy for me to stand here and say you know try to keep calm and polite and reasonable . |
| 17 | It is very easy for you to decide to be magnanimous . |
| 18 | ‘ It is very easy for us to love her . |
| 19 | But as the development officer said , ‘ there are also a lot of people in need , so it 's very easy for someone to fall through the net ’ . |
| 20 | Windows is rapidly becoming the standard for personal computer interfaces so it is very easy for someone to move to using the pen version . |
| 21 | ‘ He played great golf and it was very sad for him to lose by missing that putt . ’ |
| 22 | Clearly the general view is that it will be very dangerous for us to stay out because we risk a German-dominated Europe . ’ |
| 23 | It was very unusual for him to go anywhere on a Thursday , whether Porteneil or any further afield . |
| 24 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 25 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 26 | It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's very hard for me to do nothing , ’ he added softly . |
| 28 | ‘ It was very hard for me to take , ’ said the Amstrad boss , who was greeted by a small throng of angry fans at the High Court each day . |
| 29 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 30 | ‘ It is very hard for me to comprehend what is happening to me at home in Australia let alone here in Britain and around the world . |