Example sentences of "account for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That alone might account for her shivering . |
| 2 | To Neil , hide-bound Englishman that he was , Philip Arbuthnot was best described as Irish , because he could n't account for him in any other way . |
| 3 | Being her uncle would account for him paying her bills ! |
| 4 | Yet such interpretations do not sufficiently account for them . |
| 5 | Invention does not satisfactorily account for them . |
| 6 | How do you think Freud would account for them , if he wanted to defend his theory ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , that would account for them looking for him there . ’ |
| 8 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 9 | The young lady to whom it was addressed was asked if she could account for it and , covered with confusion , gave her explanation and sent the bomb men on their way . |
| 10 | ‘ That ca n't account for it ! ’ |
| 11 | Only God himself can account for it . |
| 12 | The women at the corner-shop remarked upon the change that had come over him , and could not account for it . |
| 13 | The gale would account for it . |
| 14 | My , you know , time is money , erm , if I ca n't account for it , |
| 15 | Surely that must account for it ? |
| 16 | He says no word of what 's been done to him , he shows no mark , but the thing is there , and I can not account for it . ’ |