Example sentences of "[adj] for what " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made you sound worried and puzzled and angry all at the same time , and that was right for what was happening . |
| 2 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 3 | Sultan Sir Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei , President Suharto of Indonesia , Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed and Singapore 's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong met in Bali on March 3-5 for what was described as neither an informal summit meeting nor a mini-summit , but a seminar , with the theme " ASEAN and the world economy " . |
| 4 | What matters is the role Shakespeare plays in it , a role at once central and expendable — and , in some obscure way , not just expendable but exchangeable for what really matters : the writing that more directly serves power [ Greenblatt having pointed out how Stanley 's notebook proved invaluable in establishing the Belgian Congo ] . |
| 5 | But from time to time there have been cases where ministers , or more often officials , decide that listing is undesirable for what are , frankly , purely political grounds . |
| 6 | Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue . |
| 7 | ‘ Unnecessary for what ? ’ said Grimma , but he ignored her . |
| 8 | Oh yes , the , the service that the retain people give is unbelievable for what they get paid for , it 's , it 's pennies really for that service . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you sorry for what you did ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 11 | ‘ The poor man , ’ a contemporary recorded , ‘ had little to say but that he was sorry for what he had done , and wept like a child . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm so sorry for what I said . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry for what ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry for what happened back there . |
| 15 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 16 | In his clumsy , fumbling way he needed to say sorry for what had happened at the club the night before . |
| 17 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 18 | I am deeply sorry for what happened , but she had caused us all terrible unhappiness and worry . ’ |
| 19 | Sorry for what ? |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ said Mrs Darrell violently to McAllister , who was dipping a curtsy , and beginning a stammering apology , but only because Dr Neil had asked her , not because she was sorry for what she had done . |
| 21 | Always before , after similar wickednesses , she had felt almost gleeful triumph , but this time , although she was not truly sorry for what she had done to Mrs Darrell , she felt something like remorse . |
| 22 | Oliver felt so small in his hands that he was suddenly sorry for what he had said . |
| 23 | ‘ No , Melody , I 'm not sorry for what we did . |
| 24 | ‘ Sorry for what , that you made love to a cripple ? |
| 25 | Still , her children are quite young and erm and I , I think she 's sorry for what she 's done . |
| 26 | ‘ Rachel , I 'm sorry for what 's happened to Jennifer , I told you that , but do n't you think there 's the chance she might just understand ? ’ |
| 27 | She believed he was ’ sorry for what he had done . |
| 28 | Lee Don Lau called his parents in Singapore to say he was sorry for what he had done . |
| 29 | He told Newcastle magistrates : ‘ I 'm sorry for what I did . |
| 30 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |