Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm keeping it warm for you ! ’ |
| 2 | The Ray-Bans and all that , I was getting it all for her for Christmas . ’ |
| 3 | On 12 August 1746 the Disarming Act became law , making it illegal for anyone in the Highlands to own or carry specified types of weapon , including broadswords , or to wear Highland costume . |
| 4 | Isabel found her eyes clinging to him , his height making it easy for her to watch his approach . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ he suggested softly , as if he might be making it easy for her , although she could n't imagine why he should . |
| 6 | And then the minute he wants something — which is only ever one thing — you 're all over him , making it easy for him and when he 's got what he want he says ‘ Thank you very much . |
| 7 | She was n't making it easy for him to rescue her . |
| 8 | With close colleagues there is more chance of explaining the best way of ‘ making it easy for them ’ , of getting them on your side as allies . |
| 9 | I understand that the electronic intarsia carriage selects the needles for only one colour at a time to the intarsia position , making it easy for you to lay in the appropriate colour . |
| 10 | She was making it worse for herself but could n't help it . |
| 11 | Thus could the very first and important step in the rise of god-worship have been initiated , by making it unnecessary for there to be an actual physical connection between the objects of faith and the believer . |
| 12 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 13 | The chemical agent which they contain , making it possible for them to use water in the photosynthetic process , is chlorophyll , which is also possessed by true algae and the higher plants . |
| 14 | Carter , on the other hand , not only had big majorities , but was a centrist ideologically — a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative who was also a liberal on civil rights , the environment and education , making it possible for him to straddle the historical division in the Democratic party . |
| 15 | They succeeded , thus making it possible for me to make predictions which could afterwards be verified . |
| 16 | in making it possible for me to do part-time research . |
| 17 | The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to . |
| 18 | By a process of ‘ abstraction ’ , moreover , it was possible for these general notions to be ‘ impressed ’ on our minds or intellects , thus making it possible for us to think in terms of them . |
| 19 | ‘ Exercise is good for it , ’ he said , the familiarity of the Butts lost in the fog and making it necessary for him to still proceed carefully . |
| 20 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 21 | Dumbly she shook her head , the threatened tears making it impossible for her to speak . |
| 22 | His face was set , making it impossible for her to guess what was going on in his mind . |
| 23 | Her knees were trembling again , but he held her pressed hard against him , both her arms locked behind her back , making it impossible for her to get away . |
| 24 | This approach therefore builds a ceiling over the heads of those on low incomes , making it impossible for them to break free . |
| 25 | On food safety , my hon. Friend will be aware of the crippling effect of veterinary inspection charges on chicken-producing companies such as John Rannoch and Sovereign Chicken in my constituency , which are making it impossible for them to compete with their European counterparts . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Making it easier for me . |
| 28 | In fact he pulled it further down making it easier for me to breathe . |
| 29 | The Scottish Institute has made an urgent plea to Government to reduce the legislative burdens on small businesses by freeing them from the obligation of a statutory audit , and making it easier for them to disincorporate . |
| 30 | You 're making it easier for them because you want to believe what they 're saying . |