Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to [pron] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening .
2 But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university .
3 Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time .
4 ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’
5 In view of what happened on the rugby field last week the French are unlikely to speak to us for a decade or so .
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