Example sentences of "it [adj] for i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I be so curmudgeonly , so rude , to an organisation which makes it possible for me to enjoy the serenity of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal , the bone-chilling bleakness of Housesteads , the intimacy of the walled garden at Wallington ? |
| 2 | ‘ Is it possible for me to see the Queen now ? ’ |
| 3 | All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition . |
| 4 | in making it possible for me to do part-time research . |
| 5 | It has always been one of my regrets that life did not make it possible for me to know this quiet , strong artist and teacher better . |
| 6 | They succeeded , thus making it possible for me to make predictions which could afterwards be verified . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was this , the fact that she now had someone else to love her , that made it possible for me to make a proper apology , to stutter out confusedly , red-faced , that I was sorry about what had happened . |
| 8 | He thought I was too silly for words , but he made it possible for me to keep Perdita , so I 'll always be grateful . ’ |
| 9 | Er is it possible for me to get closer ? |
| 10 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 11 | My conclusion makes it unnecessary for me to proceed further upon the natural justice argument . |
| 12 | ‘ You find it odd for me to talk of fate , neh ? ’ |
| 13 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 14 | In fact he pulled it further down making it easier for me to breathe . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Because arriving with you makes it easier for me to leave with you — to take you home , Maria . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He felt it foolish for me to do otherwise . |
| 18 | That makes it easy for me to feel confident . |
| 19 | ‘ I did , but you made it impossible for me to refuse . ’ |
| 20 | Now you 've made it impossible for me to carry out an interview despite the fact I 've been extremely patient " |
| 21 | ONCE again baseless charges of lewdness and indecency in this column make it impossible for me to report the following headline in the newsletter of Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries : ‘ What 's Five Inches Long — and Worth £200 ? ’ |
| 22 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 23 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 24 | They made it impossible for me to stay . |
| 25 | ‘ You made it impossible for me to stay , ’ he said rather tightly . |
| 26 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 27 | Would it prudent for me to consider both sets of minutes rather than us get into difficulty ? |
| 28 | Although his cold manner made it difficult for me to talk to him , I had to ask him whether he had found any employment for me . |
| 29 | All my subsequent attempts to find a mutually convenient time to meet have failed — mostly , I have to confess , because my term-time commitments in Oxford made it difficult for me get up to London except at hours when you were in Cabinet , or in the House . |
| 30 | ‘ You make it difficult for me to leave . |