Example sentences of "very well for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all very well for me to say cheerfully , ‘ Life begins at sixty . ’ |
| 2 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 3 | It was all very well for him to talk , Molly thought , as she saw Signora Lucca washing a lettuce under a running tap in the kitchen . |
| 4 | It was all very well for him to talk glibly of ‘ friendship ’ . |
| 5 | It was all very well for him to have told himself that he no longer minded about his illegitimacy . |
| 6 | It is all very well for him to pepper a debate with the emotive terms to which he is addicted , such as ’ crisis ’ and ’ collapse ’ , and to describe the board as having ’ a pistol to its head ’ . |
| 7 | However , it 's all very well for you to talk about ‘ that man , Dunton ’ . |
| 8 | It is all very well for us to say that we must ensure that prisoners are properly employed , but when the unemployment figures increase every month in the east midlands , there is resentment and resistance to prison inmates engaging in meaningful work as such work would probably take away jobs outside the prison . |
| 9 | It is all very well for us to sit here and tell teachers to go on extra courses , but they 're finding that there are n't any left , so the next thing that they can turn to the next person they can turn to is the educational psychologist . |