Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an effective level , the one at which I made it possible for Jean-Claude to work uninterruptedly , I felt both the benefits of a com-panionable relationship with someone of whom I was , in many ways , admiring , and a sense of my own worth : I was useful to him . |
| 2 | I made it easier for him by saying I was n't tired , I wanted to stay up and star-gaze , and anyway the sofa in the living area was very comfortable . |
| 3 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 4 | I found them perfect for mixing up warmer greens . |
| 5 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 6 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
| 7 | Hello there man , of course I 'm awake , I 'm eating my tea , ha you 're wrong , Russell 's organizing his night so that he 's gon na pick you up half eight quarter to nine okay well I , I ai n't had a shower or anything yet , I mean er everything 's organized I organized it all for picking you up eight quarter to nine , bless you , what 's your number ? |
| 8 | I kept them interested for half an hour and now I ca n't even remember what I said . |
| 9 | When I look back , I see how easy and comfortable and pleasant my life was , and I took it all for granted ! |
| 10 | I gave you three for the bird box , you got ta deliver me a bird box |
| 11 | In fact I had it six for talking in class , I remember very vividly having six strokes of the strap on my hand . |
| 12 | I married me first for looks , and my God , did n't I pay for it ! |
| 13 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |
| 14 | For some feminists the ‘ problem ’ was the masculine culture of mixed schools , which made them problematic for girls ( Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | She shot him a glance which made him sorry for asking . |
| 16 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 17 | It was a belief in a designing and orderly God which made it possible for him to think there might be a consistent cause for his ‘ headaches ’ . |
| 18 | The share system of land ownership did not meet the approval of the British , and legislation was passed which made it possible for any shareholder to force the division of a tract . |
| 19 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 20 | We marvelled again at the scenery of West Spitsbergen , its sharply tipped mountains of dark rock , the glacier-filled valleys between and the tiny strips of life-giving vegetation which made it possible for some birds and animals to exist . |
| 21 | The influence of party structures had for long been curtailed by the arrangements for selecting chairmen ; arrangements which made it possible for situations to arise where the president , the Congressional party leadership and a majority of the majority party could all be united on a particular issue yet might be thwarted by the whims of an all-powerful committee chairman . |
| 22 | He admired Jotan 's detachment , and concluded that it was the lack of direct involvement which made it possible for him to behave as if nothing had occurred which could be the source of concern . |
| 23 | The record company prepared her an exhaustive schedule which made it impossible for her to give Fletch the attention he deserved so , reluctantly , she gave him to friends . |
| 24 | For the first time she was grateful for Matilda 's notorious temper , which made it impossible for the Empress to keep her voice down . |
| 25 | Was there something about him which made it impossible for women to stay with him long ? |
| 26 | Under the quiet but firm leadership of Kenneth McDougall , ably seconded by Mark Frame , the BDDA was approaching the stage of development which made it fit for its task in the post-war world . |
| 27 | Using that famed double standard which made it acceptable for men to indulge in chance conquests , but which castigated women , Vitor would now associate her with casual sex and loose morals . |
| 28 | Having to absorb this phenomenon — for such the eighteen-and-a-half-year-old became within a month or two , despite all the swirl of competition ( from local airfields and ancient academies ) — the Oxford undergraduates graciously invented a school and background which made it easier for them to justify taking him on board . |
| 29 | Some general stimuli seem to have been the persistence of higher birth rates in rural areas ( which meant pressure on land ) , the attractions of city life , better public transport , which made it easier for cities to recruit labour from a wider area , and , above all , the creation of employment as industry grew up near supplies of raw materials and important transport centres . |
| 30 | ‘ Holy Cross played very hard and spread the floor well which made it difficult for us to trap them in open play . |