Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regarded it with distaste , decided that the rain would have washed it reasonably clean , then dragged it clear of the bog myrtle and looked around me for somewhere to dump it out of sight . |
| 2 | She began to look into alternative methods of treatment — natural remedies , hypnotherapy , etc — and resented me for not participating and not having the right attitude . |
| 3 | Forgive me for not inviting you to remove them with your teeth ! ’ |
| 4 | Antoinette was being a pest , as usual , and Tante Héloise was scolding me for not wanting to play with her . ’ |
| 5 | Excuse me for not writing more as I have to catch up with some sleep and get to a meeting about the course by 10 a.m. tomorrow ! |
| 6 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 7 | My friends shook their heads , and chided me for not telling them a story with a happy ending . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean you can forgive me for not telling you about Thomas ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | Forgive me for not listening ? |
| 10 | I pushed the bloody bitch into it after she had cursed me for not handing over every penny in my pockets ! |
| 11 | ‘ Please forgive me for not remembering you , Georgi Kirov . |
| 12 | Of the many directives gummed to the glass partition , one took the trouble to thank me for not smoking . |
| 13 | ‘ Forgive me for not knowing , ’ Maggie murmured sarcastically , annoyed at this haughty lecture . |
| 14 | ‘ And you see , if you tell him I had n't felt well , he 'd be so cross with me for not waking him up . ’ |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) criticised me for not giving a clear commitment to setting up a funding council . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll say this for old Wix , ’ he went on when the spasm had passed , ‘ though he does n't approve of me for not toting a gun , he 's bloody good to the old man . ’ |
| 17 | Blame me for not preventing it , I dare say . ’ |
| 18 | But I would like you two , forgive me for not saying your names , to put the other two on hold by keying R star 9 . |
| 19 | ‘ You sound just like my old nurse , scolding me for not playing with my cousin whenever she stayed with us . ’ |
| 20 | Please forgive me for not replying to your original letter . |
| 21 | Mr. Kasner 's explanation in his evidence to me for thus acting and accepting the proposal was the following : |
| 22 | It took me for ever to decide on the colour , style and material it was to be made in . |
| 23 | In a review of the first edition of this book , Sara Mills took issue with me for pessimistically implying that linguistic reform is impossible ; she pointed out , and I think with some justice , that my analysis risks leaving women with no way to hit back when they are confronted with sexist language , at least until after the revolution . |
| 24 | Whitaker ( 1979 : 229 ) records how these ‘ college men ’ are described sardonically at police station level , as ‘ plastic men — who know all about how to hold a knife and fork , but nothing about how to catch villains ’ . |
| 25 | They feel nothing about seriously mutilating someone for a trivial reason . |
| 26 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |
| 27 | On the one hand , if they go along unquestioningly they may lose their autonomy , and their subordinates will see them as not having significant influence with corporate . |
| 28 | I can excuse them for not knowing all the facts that have now come to light but I can not forgive them or the government for failing to steer the health of the nation . |
| 29 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 30 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |