Example sentences of "it [is] [adj -er] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 2 | It 's better for me , 'cos there 's less caffeine , and I drink a lot of tea , so . |
| 3 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 4 | It 's better for him . |
| 5 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 6 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 7 | I think we 're all agreed that it 's better for us to die honourably together in this way than to risk a worse fate at the hands of the enemy . " |
| 8 | If we can get full pages fine but sometimes it 's better for us to get these . |
| 9 | ‘ Come on , sit down and let's all have a beer , ’ she said , and with a look at Dr Reid added , ‘ It 's better for you than that rotgut at the bar . ’ |
| 10 | It 's better for you to wait there . |
| 11 | Well if it 's better for you I should . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 13 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 14 | Anyway , I 've turned it off so it 's colder for you |
| 15 | five or ten minutes late , it 's cheaper for me to put ten P in than to pay twelve pound ticket |
| 16 | Yeah well it 's cheaper for us anyway . |
| 17 | I mean , we 're buying coal which is subsidised abroad so therefore it 's cheaper for us to buy it and bring it in , but what happens when all , all our home supplies have dried up |
| 18 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 20 | But because they have less control over muscles , it 's harder for them to form words and sounds . |
| 21 | They have as much interest in learning to talk as any other child , but because they have less control over the muscles in the mouth , it 's harder for them to express themselves . |
| 22 | Coun Buttle told members of the personnel committee : ‘ It 's important to stress that men as well as women can be victims of harassment and sometimes it 's harder for them to admit it . ’ |
| 23 | No I 'm just saying it 's harder for me , it was harder to have two people tutoring me because I , you were coming in with suggestions that you know already , you were n't , like then John was coming in |
| 24 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 25 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |
| 26 | I want to support him , I am doing so , even if he refuses to acknowledge that just now because it 's easier for him to bear what has happened if he pretends it is me who is more broken than he . |
| 27 | It 's easier for me if you can be happy and enjoy things . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 29 | Er I 'd like to make two statements if if I may , it 's easier for me . |
| 30 | Well , you see , it 's easier for me to sit here , and to pontificate , and therefore your questions were well put , erm , we can demonstrate , I think a much more effective approach to the environment in in our field , because er , we 're dealing with chemicals which we have some control over , and which exists to some small degree in air , air machines . |