English English Dictionary

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for sb in English:

1. care care


Take care.
I have a great fear of being disdained by those I love and care about.
You need to stop pretending that you don't care.
If you are here, it means you care.
He's a widower with three small children to take care of.
They were taking care of a girl from India and a boy from Italy.
All things considered, I think you should go back home and take care of your parents.
I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.
He does not care for any sport involving team work or quick responses to other players.
With a little more care, he wouldn't have failed.
Citizens are debating about health care at City Hall.
I left my baby in her care and went shopping.
You need have a good microphone because we care about sound quality.
I love the fact that you always seem to care so much.
While we were on holiday, a neighbor took care of our cat.

English word "for sb"(care) occurs in sets:

verbs/adjectives, nouns with propositions C
Prepositions for Ewa

2. be good be good



English word "for sb"(be good) occurs in sets:

Prepositions after ADJECTIVES

3. respect


Respect yourself.
Who can read the heroic deeds of brave men without a feeling of respect and admiration?
If you don't start treating people with a little more respect, people may start avoiding you like the plague.
Tom doesn't respect Mary / Tom is one of the most respected men in the business world
There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
This is the day on which the Constitution's fundamental spirit, the sovereignty of the people, respect for fundamental human rights, and pacifism, are all reaffirmed.
In America elderly people are not given the same degree of respect they receive in many other countries.
The very pure spirit does not bother about the regard of others or human respect, but communes inwardly with God, alone and in solitude as to all forms, and with delightful tranquility, for the knowledge of God is received in divine silence.
Once dismissed as an artificial language, Esperanto has gained the respect of a new generation of linguists, as the most successful planned language of all time.
Apart from being unlucky enough to get ALS, I have been fortunate in almost every other respect.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

English word "for sb"(respect) occurs in sets:

Adjectiv/ noun + preposition

4. sorry


I'm sorry.
Could you do this instead of me? "Sorry, I'm too busy."
We're sorry. The number you have dialed is currently unavailable.
Sorry to bother you, but I'm afraid something urgent has come up.
Sorry, but it looks like I'm booked up on that day.
Better safe than sorry.
Sorry, where can I find a delicatessen?
No sooner had he said it than he was sorry.
Although he was wrong, he didn't say he was sorry.
I'm sorry, my boss is sleeping right now. Please come back tomorrow.
Sorry I haven't fixed dinner tonight. I was so tired there was just no way.
Sorry, but it all came about so suddenly that I haven't got a handle on the situation yet.
I'm sorry, but I can't accept your invitation. I have other plans on that day.
Sorry, we can't fill this prescription here.
I am sorry to write such a long letter. I didn't have time to write a short one.

5. unusual


That's unusual.
Valencia is famous for its unusual architecture.
You don't have to come up with an unusual topic for your speech.
In the case of patient death during the course of medical treatment, even if there is medical error present, it is not automatically legally considered to be an "unusual death."
Innovation has something to do with the faculty to notice unusual phenomena.
That's an unusual hobby she's got, the transfer student. "She's cute so it's fine with me."
Some clarinetists use clarinets tuned to A instead of B flat in passages which would otherwise be written in unusual keys.
In an unusual move, this school's big band uses slide trumpets and valve trombones exclusively.
But in many ways, the bird called Alex is unusual, for it has shown the kind of mental abilities that scientists once thought only humans had.
Engagement gifts should always be unusual and special to honour the occasion.
creepiest, most unusual person I've ever met.
If something is unusual, it does not happen very often or you do not see it or hear it very often(2) If you describe someone as unusual, you think that they are interesting and different from other people
1. Everything here is so unusual. / 2. It is not so unusual.
The unusual architecture of Astana makes it look like a space-age city.
You cant find some really unusual things in this shop.