Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] for [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admired them for doing openly what many women do in secret or under the respectable cover of marriage . |
| 2 | Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me . |
| 3 | Can I thank you for coming today , th th the media often has lots of comments from the chattering classes , saying unhealthy , British democracies , cos they only concentrate on this place . |
| 4 | ‘ And I envy you for living here in these surroundings . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |
| 6 | I use them for breaking down annual goals , to monthly goals . |
| 7 | It 's a company flat ; I keep it for entertaining mostly . |
| 8 | ‘ Still , I liked you for standin' up for me like you did . |
| 9 | I blame myself for looking on and allowing you to poison their minds . |
| 10 | Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy . |
| 11 | She done us for skating up the fucking |
| 12 | She admired him for betraying neither bafflement nor contempt . |
| 13 | She hated herself for backing down , but what could she do ? |
| 14 | It sounded ridiculously lame and she cursed herself for sounding so weak and ineffectual , but miraculously he seemed not to notice . |
| 15 | I 'm bound to say that I meet a lot of people who praise me for speaking up , but do n't speak up themselves . |
| 16 | She despised herself for sounding so defensive , but perhaps if Luke understood he might leave her in peace . |
| 17 | Opinion over Dixon 's handling of the riots was divided between those who criticized her for showing too much restraint towards law-breakers , and those who cited her cautious approach as instrumental in calming the disturbances . |
| 18 | ‘ Can you forgive me for going away ? |
| 19 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 20 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 21 | It optimises it for distributed massively parallel processing . |
| 22 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 23 | How long did it take you for to come round ? |