Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know that I am sorry for that . |
| 2 | Revulsion at the thought that I am responsible for it . |
| 3 | It has helped my try-scoring , too , that I am responsible for scoring our pushover tries . |
| 4 | You have a reputation of not letting go of a thing once you have started and you would be delighted to discover that I am responsible for Ana 's blindness . |
| 5 | But just in case , I am not about to tempt the Grim Reaper by announcing that I am ready for him . |
| 6 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 8 | Not , ’ he added swiftly at her frown , ‘ that I 'm anxious for my own company , I assure you . ’ |
| 9 | You said yourself that I 'm good for you . ’ |
| 10 | Not that I 'm one for erm like talking like some people do and wanting this and er you know . |
| 11 | It 's this allocation that I 'm responsible for administration , as Visual Arts Officer , with the assistance of an unpaid advisory panel of specialists , and subject to the approval of an Executive Committee which represents the public we exist to serve . |
| 12 | I just want a clearance note off a doctor just to say that I 'm fit for work . ’ |
| 13 | But it would be a big change , and I do n't know that I 'm ready for it yet . |
| 14 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 15 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 16 | So much so that I was ready for a rich joke when my family got home from their various doings that birthday evening . |
| 17 | ‘ He is not too happy either that I was ready for him when he cracked the whip . |
| 18 | It was nothing that I was responsible for . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You can check with whoever you like but I was totally exonerated of any blame at the time , and I resent you and your family 's implications that I was responsible for Eddie 's death ! |
| 20 | At the time that I was contending for the ordination of women to the priesthood of the Anglican Church , I made use of another argument , drawing out the implications of patristic thought . |
| 21 | That she is concerned for him and wishes to assure herself as to his welfare is understandable , but that look of shining radiance is a trifle puzzling . |
| 22 | He 'd lied about Tara , lied about Nicola Schreider … assured her she was n't his type then pursued her with consummate skill until his ego was satisfied that she was ripe for seduction … |
| 23 | She spoke sharply , and her niece saw that she was upset for some reason . |
| 24 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 25 | Nor did she like his barely hidden insinuation that she was hard-up for a date . |
| 26 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 27 | And she was n't sure that she was ready for such exposure . |
| 28 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 29 | They think they 're one and the same , and that she was responsible for the attack . |
| 30 | She could n't be expected to hang around with the press and everyone else knowing that she was responsible for last night 's false alarm . |