Example sentences of "something for which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then start to use our voluntary muscles for support — something for which they were not designed . |
| 2 | There were ripples of self-satisfied laughter , as if to have such a mad dream was something for which they could congratulate themselves . |
| 3 | This might help them to see his lack of social responsiveness as a symptom of his illness and something for which they should make allowances rather than as an unfriendly act or a personal slight on their company . |
| 4 | But Ann Veronica 's slow awakening , albeit eighty years ago , is not so unfamiliar to us now , when there is a sense that our own desire , our own pleasure , is something for which we have to struggle . |
| 5 | Yet the phenomenon is familiar to us all , particularly when we discover we are responsible for something for which we had blamed others . |
| 6 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 7 | He looks surprised when I ask if it is difficult to put so much energy into something for which you do n't get paid : ‘ It makes absolutely no difference at all . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The wealth of letters and contents therein is something for which I am ever grateful . |
| 10 | The ordination of women was something for which I was supposed to argue . |
| 11 | ‘ That is something for which I no longer have the slightest desire , ’ he assured her . |
| 12 | But there is something for which I have rather more difficulty in forgiving him . |
| 13 | She must have done something for which she was now being made to pay . |
| 14 | A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul . |