Example sentences of "very [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say again that it is very odd for me to have to describe all this for you . |
| 2 | And it 's so odd , it 's hard now when somebody says , ‘ What was it like ? ’ or says , ‘ What did she use to wear ? ’ because of course we all saw her all the time and thought nothing of it , saw her at the very least once a week ( missing service , it was called , if you went a week without visiting , and it was certain to be discussed amongst the congregation when you did finally show up ) , it 's just very odd for me to think that you were never there and that this is all strange to you when to us it was just an ordinary life . |
| 3 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 4 | It would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Gustave Flaubert 's feelings by means of such utterances ; but what is the importance of the said gentleman ? ’ |
| 5 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 6 | Some of them were a bit earthy would n't be very proper for me to repeat here . |
| 7 | It 's not very interesting for me to waffle for two hours . |
| 8 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 9 | And on the Scottish understanding , it is very easy for somebody to come along and say well jo God just now declares that we are forgiven . |
| 10 | When Leonardo , a cousin who had once wished to marry Emilia , appears intending to get revenge , it is very easy for him to provoke Eustathius 's Othello-like jealousy . |
| 11 | A tremendous talent , but unless things were made very easy for him to get on and do things that he wanted to do , he would lose interest very quickly . |
| 12 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 13 | Many of my school friends know hardly anything about sex and it worries them but mum has made it very easy for me to ask questions . |
| 14 | You 've put me in a position where it would be very easy for me to sabotage your plans . ’ |
| 15 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 16 | It would have been very easy for me to stay there for the rest of my life . |
| 17 | And I know it 's very easy for me to stand here and say you know try to keep calm and polite and reasonable . |
| 18 | It is very easy for you to decide to be magnanimous . |
| 19 | ‘ It is very easy for us to love her . |
| 20 | But as the development officer said , ‘ there are also a lot of people in need , so it 's very easy for someone to fall through the net ’ . |
| 21 | Windows is rapidly becoming the standard for personal computer interfaces so it is very easy for someone to move to using the pen version . |
| 22 | He wanted very much for her to know how much he loved her , so he had called her ‘ Mam ’ , then ‘ Angel ’ , and now ‘ Sweetheart ’ , because it made her happy . |
| 23 | ‘ He played great golf and it was very sad for him to lose by missing that putt . ’ |
| 24 | Clearly the general view is that it will be very dangerous for us to stay out because we risk a German-dominated Europe . ’ |
| 25 | It was very unusual for him to go anywhere on a Thursday , whether Porteneil or any further afield . |
| 26 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 27 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 28 | It would have been very hard for him to have suddenly dropped her after all she had endured . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's very hard for me to do nothing , ’ he added softly . |
| 30 | ‘ It was very hard for me to take , ’ said the Amstrad boss , who was greeted by a small throng of angry fans at the High Court each day . |