Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are too few of us for giving orders and biting people . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not much of one for looking at things , ’ Harrison said and Hope 's heart went out to him . |
| 3 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 4 | Also I mean , we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then cherry picking it , instead of actually taking the whole , because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been accepted in its entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much er all three of you for coming . |
| 5 | The first of them is the group thank you to all of them for assisting the panel sometimes working on the computing . |
| 6 | Thanks to all of you for sharing your views . |
| 7 | We just want to say thank you very much to all of you for coming and listening . |
| 8 | And he gets the jar cor she said that 's disgusting dad she said and he had course he blames all of us for having some but we had n't touched them . |
| 9 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 10 | ‘ Dr Neil , ’ she said , and her manner was almost shy , ‘ I hope you do not think the less of me for raising such a delicate matter . ’ |
| 11 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 12 | Friends of Fonda 's father said Peter should be ashamed of himself for linking a ‘ great name in movies ’ to such disgraceful junk . |
| 13 | Ocean should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for releasing this third-rate rubbish . |
| 14 | He 's made it perfectly easy for you , and nobody will think any the worse of you for getting out . |
| 15 | Which choice would you be most proud of yourself for making ? |
| 16 | Seemed proud of himself for having found out , because he said it 's supposed to be the planet 's big secret . |
| 17 | Folly felt quite proud of herself for remembering this snippet of English history . |
| 18 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 19 | Clara even grew quite fond of Mrs Hill , and proud of herself for feeling fond of one so odd . |
| 20 | I 'm proud of you for doing that . |
| 21 | He believed he had found a good humoured gentleman in Holland who would send him plants , but was critical of him for overheating his stoves . |
| 22 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 23 | But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed . |