Example sentences of "it [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient had hobbies before his stroke or head injury , such as drawing , painting or needlepoint , you should try to make it possible for him to take them up again . |
| 2 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 3 | In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work . |
| 4 | . Is it possible for you to give me a few more names — of some people who are working in that field ? ’ |
| 5 | as possible to make it easier for them to set it up , is that we 're hoping to develop within the next er few months in fact , a certification form |
| 6 | . In ten years time if you just give them a derisory thirty pence off people leave their children at home make it easier for them to bring them with them . . |
| 7 | Since I was not going to discuss the future with him , I did not ask him to elaborate , but I registered his disappointment and thought that , if that was how he felt , he was making it easier for me to leave him . |
| 8 | If we know how horses communicate , it not only makes it easier for us to understand them and look after them , but it also makes it possible for us to communicate with them more satisfactorily . |
| 9 | Please keep them short and to the point , and , if possible , word processed rather than hand-written ( it makes it easier for us to read them ! ) . |
| 10 | Please keep them short and to the point , and , if possible , word-processed rather than hand-written ( it makes it easier for us to read them ! ) . |
| 11 | I think you have something definite to say — and I hope I have made it easier for you to say it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I 'd make it easier for you to suck me off . ’ |
| 13 | She was n't making it easy for him to rescue her . |
| 14 | His perceptual difficulties may make it impossible for him to recognize you and his immediate family or your relationship with him . |
| 15 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 16 | But what really made it impossible for anyone to convict me was when , to my astonishment , a frail , bent old man appeared in the witness box . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I would like it fine for you to advise me how I am to repaint my ceilings , Doctor ! |
| 18 | While Mr Fallon will probably not have had the chance to read the report , we think it unwise for him to dismiss it out of hand . |
| 19 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's well known that Maurice likes a night out but the media attention he gets in Britain makes it difficult for him to enjoy it . |
| 21 | She was easily distracted by any noise , particularly if there was a chance it was food or another bird calling , and this sometimes made it difficult for me to make her concentrate on what I thought she should be doing . |
| 22 | ‘ Holy Cross played very hard and spread the floor well which made it difficult for us to trap them in open play . |
| 23 | The following day James Molyneaux , the leader of the Official Ulster Unionist Party ( OUP ) , said that he thought there was enough in Brooke 's speech " to make it worthwhile for us to meet him " , although along with other unionist politicians in Northern Ireland he reportedly remained adamant that the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 had to be suspended before talks could be opened . |