Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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1 | Because I have n't felt so sorry for her for years . |
2 | She had wanted some way of freeing herself from Gareth Davis and his demands and now , with no effort on her part , she was free of him for ever . |
3 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
4 | I 'm far too fond of it for that . |
5 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
6 | as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’ |
7 | There 's nothing wrong with it for God 's sake . |
8 | We should n't be surprised , and we should n't think that there is anything wrong with us for having tears in our lives . |
9 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
10 | In the end , he adopted the role of ‘ cockney writer ’ , a role which was genuine , and which showed the boys that Corrigan was interested in them for themselves . |
11 | The story is not interested in her for herself . |
12 | When his initial interest waned , the teacher paid no more attention to him : ‘ Then I realized what he was interested in me for and we ended up just walking past each other , completely ignoring each other . ’ |
13 | because of the look of it , when in fact that 's only part of it it depends whether he 's gon na be motivated there , they mo it 's not gon na need much motivation but if people are interested in you for what you are like , like they have been , yeah , and he 's experienced all , he 's been somebody special there has n't he ? |
14 | Essentially I use paint as a vehicle for my ideas and I 'm not interested in it for its own sake . |
15 | People were interested in it for about five minutes . |
16 | It 's a bunch of people , Universities , Publishers , erm some funding from Central Government , some from er research councils of various kinds are trying to make a sort of record of current usage of the English language and I think Longmans are intr interested in it for example f from the point of view of dictionaries and stuff like that . |
17 | The desire to ensure that the adult child retains an appropriate degree of independence can be particularly tricky in these circumstances , especially if she or he returns to live in the parents ' home and is dependent upon them for accommodation , child care , emotional support and possibly for money as well . |
18 | Since the newcomers are dependent upon them for neither employment nor housing , they are not inhibited by a web of economic and social ties from expressing their opposition to the opinions and activities of farmers or landowners hitherto considered locally omnipotent , Middle-class and well-educated , they even compete with farmers and landowners for positions of authority and local responsibility , disrupting or threatening to disrupt the customary hierarchy of dominance and status in the village . |
19 | The horse 's sense of smell is acute , and it is dependent upon it for adequate communication with other horses . |
20 | Her soul remained and would remain faithful to him for ever . |
21 | But I would have thought you 'd expect him to be faithful to you for a day or two at least . ’ |
22 | If , then , someone had to appear old to him for him to acquire the concept ‘ old ’ , he would never get started . |
23 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
24 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
25 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
26 | The second , and the one with which he is still struggling , required him to search for a means of making the pupils less dependent on him for their mathematics . |
27 | Like the NEB , it was set up to operate separately from the direct institutions of central government and the Scottish Office , although dependent on them for funds ( up to £75 million in the mid-1980s ) and its board included representatives of business and labour as well as government . |
28 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
29 | The Dependency Ratio , refers to the ratio between those in employment and those dependent on them for financial support , — directly or indirectly eg children , the elderly and the unemployed . |
30 | MGM is already in default on $600m of loans from Credit Lyonnais and is totally dependent on it for capital to finance its day-to-day operations . |