Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 2 | I want to show you how grateful I am for that . ’ |
| 3 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 4 | I can see how hopelessly unsuitable I am for you ; all I ever do is misunderstand what you say , and weep . |
| 5 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 6 | And this one is for the electroencephalogram , which records his brain impulses . |
| 7 | Fallen like Lucifer ; fallen ( this one is for you , Stu ) like the stock market in 1929 . |
| 8 | Unlike many similar discounts which sprang up after Abbey National had made its move , this one is for an indefinite period . |
| 9 | The second of this months MS-DOS tutors , only this one is for advanced users and covers the organisation of data on disks , etc . |
| 10 | … very much and you get a fabulous Radio Subasio T-shirt so keep those calls coming out there this one is for Adriana in Gubbio it 's Celentano 's latest coming to you at fifteen before four this Thursday morning courtesy of your friend Tullio who says … |
| 11 | The difference is that this one is for men , see . |
| 12 | This one is for me . |
| 13 | ‘ And this one 's for coming . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This one 's for Brixton , ’ he shouted . |
| 15 | So little Miss Schlegel will have to languish alone , ripening slowly in the California sunshine until one day I will turn up and have my way with her , quite possibly shouting , ‘ This one 's for Gloria Steinem ! ’ as I do so . |
| 16 | This one 's for Jason Grandcourt of Mackay , Australia , who , many moons ago , requested a Killing Joke listing . |
| 17 | Millions of telly viewers had heard the sprint hero declare , after winning his gold medal : ‘ This one 's for Ron . |
| 18 | ‘ THIS ONE 's for all the people in the audience who are gon na talk to me after the show , ’ beams singing Roger Daltrey lookalike Jonti . |
| 19 | ‘ This one 's for all the ladies in the house ! ’ |
| 20 | But at over £600 , this one 's for graphics professionals only . |
| 21 | This one 's for when the light 's go out … all over Europe ! |
| 22 | This one was for £500 cheque fraud . |
| 23 | This one was for show , to see people , to hold the sort of meeting he was holding now . |
| 24 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 25 | It says this is the only number you want but as read it and said well it does n't really make it clear it 's for reservations and bookings and it does n't really so we 'll just have to make sure that it damn well happens on the advert . |
| 26 | The fitter we become and the more energy we expend on a regular basis , the easier it is for us to maintain our new figure . |
| 27 | If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved . |
| 28 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |
| 29 | ‘ The more information we can get from the public the easier it is for us to tackle criminals and make life in the town better for everyone , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |