Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 2 | I thought you were still mad at me for carrying on my work and then I thought you were just waiting for Maria Luisa to come back before … oh , before making your decision … ’ |
| 3 | Rita is still experiencing some back trouble so we were particularly grateful to her for making the long journey from Newcastle . |
| 4 | He was rather proud of himself for being able to visualize and draw such a convoluted position . |
| 5 | She had never been to lunch or any other meal alone with Willi since that day , but she was wholeheartedly indebted to him for his kindness , his common sense , his consciousness of the world outside one 's own personal situation . |
| 6 | She was too shocked by McIllvanney 's offer and , at the same time , she was paradoxically surprised at herself for being so shocked . |
| 7 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 8 | I was so mad with him for doing it ! |
| 9 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 10 | And she was equally furious with herself for letting things get so out of hand . |
| 11 | She was immediately annoyed with herself for becoming defensive . |
| 12 | She was immediately angry with herself for admitting to Eleanor that she had read those newspaper items , and that they had got to her . |
| 13 | Indeed , as late as 1638 the lord deputy , Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , was strongly critical of him for putting the interests of the Villiers family before those of the Crown , in connection with the Irish customs revenues . |
| 14 | He was particularly grateful to him for the ‘ extraordinary kindness ’ he had shown his wife , Bowyer 's niece Blanche Highgate , near whom he was buried in St Dunstan in the West . |
| 15 | The sense of disappointment was as sharp as a blow , painful out of all proportion , so much so that for a moment I was almost angry with him for not being there . |
| 16 | He still showed little emotional reaction though he was evidently angry with himself for letting his natural arrogance be so easily quashed . |
| 17 | He was however grateful to her for curing him ; he had not had to use the purple crystals again . |
| 18 | However , when I heard his speech , I was very grateful to him for having raised the issue in such a way . |
| 19 | ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’ |
| 20 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |