Example sentences of "for i [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor do they do a lot for me as erogenous zones . |
| 2 | He had lost his confidence and was standing off and that made things so much easier for me on that occasion . ’ |
| 3 | Me and Matt doing our own stunts ( good old Norman really screwed the dollars up for me on that clause ) . |
| 4 | And I do n't think it would do any good for me on this programme , or any of my colleagues , and of course the media will be now all over the place trying to achieve this . |
| 5 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 6 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 7 | I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody . |
| 8 | ‘ For me at any rate , ‘ I reply . |
| 9 | The combination of purple-red flowers and cream variegated foliage of Buddleia davidii ‘ Harlequin ’ may not suit all tastes but least appealing of all , for me at any rate , is the purple-flowered phlox , also called ‘ Harlequin ’ , whose leaves are generously splashed with cream , a combination which does not work for me . |
| 10 | It 's certainly never anything stronger than that , for me at any rate , but the guests can have what they like . |
| 11 | A parallel pleasure and comfort , for me at any rate , was to watch the Jews . |
| 12 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |
| 13 | The main thing for me at this stage in my career is to be in a well organised team which will help me win the 250 World Championship . |
| 14 | ‘ Every game is a bonus for me at this stage of my career and I 'm enjoying my football . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ In my work it 's second nature for me to double check all factual research . |
| 16 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 17 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 18 | Three tracks are from previous albums — Desperate Move ( driving , excellent and written by JMT stablemate Steve Coleman ) , Body & Soul ( as with Round Midnight below , a standard given a singular and distinctive modern treatment ) and Rock this Calling ( a modern jazz blues ? ) — while four are previously unrecorded by her : the melancholy-then-strident Do n't look Back ( highlight for me of this album ) , the quixotic Soul Melange , the Monk/Williams ‘ standard ’ Round Midnight ( a refreshingly individual rendition ) and My Corner of the Sky ( a modern son , which reminded me of an uptempo Ella Fitzgerald scat rendition … but with a rock group ) ; all bar Round Midnight are Wilson compositions . |
| 19 | And I used to swallow up all those stories in the women 's magazines , which were very kindly saved for me by two ladies down the dale . |
| 20 | But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week . |
| 21 | But whatever was lost for me by that death I still saw , and see , love as the only real world . |
| 22 | ‘ There has n't been any post for me by any chance , has there , Iris ? ’ |
| 23 | For me by this time the Eleven-plus was looming up , and in the conventional manner , I was promised a bike if I passed . |
| 24 | It still left me feeling sickened by the whole human race , until some devoted parent , husband , wife , or adult child of an elderly parent put things right for me by spending days and nights at a bedside . |
| 25 | The BPO/Maazel version on DG has become something of desert island version for me in recent months , although the Philadelphia/Ormandy ( Sony ) is every bit as essential for its uniquely authentic atmosphere ( despite the cuts ) . |
| 26 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 27 | But capital punishment is not for me in that category : it is not self-evidently harmful , not self-evidently unjust . |
| 28 | ‘ When father opened an account for me in that branch just across the river from the hospital in my P.T.S. days he advised me , if possible , never to move my account . |
| 29 | She works for me in that side . |
| 30 | ‘ My hands and feet a bit , but that 's usual for me in hot weather . ’ |