Example sentences of "[pron] for [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE had a lovely time in Lourdes , I want to thank everyone for looking after us both . |
| 2 | DESPITE a memorable victory over Ukrainian side Karpaty Lvov in the European Cup Winners Cup on Wednesday , Shelbourne midfielder Paul Doolin is taking nothing for granted as his former club Derry City visit Tolka Park this afternoon . |
| 3 | Last January 's shock FA Cup exit against Wrexham acts as a sharp reminder that they can take nothing for granted at Scarborough . |
| 4 | He will take nothing for granted against a Swansea side who are only three points off the top of the table . |
| 5 | ‘ Pardon me for jumping to erroneous conclusions . |
| 6 | The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art produced his Shut up and Sing in 1960 and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , where he was music director from 1963 to 1973 , produced his Excuse Me for Living in 1964 . |
| 7 | ‘ Only a few years ago he criticised me for speaking to the press and said I should never do it again . |
| 8 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 9 | and the furry monster was there and the church bells rang unceasingly , my muse was red with righteous anger , o my love , and her hound barked at the furry monster and her frankfurter but i did not let them see me for worshipping in silence is the artist 's choice , that is the way for growth . |
| 10 | ‘ You blame me for returning to England because of my job but it was n't just that and it was n't all my fault . ’ |
| 11 | The little creep was trying to get his own back on me for sleeping with his wife . ’ |
| 12 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 13 | And can you pardon me for coming to such a conclusion as that in the last line of my verses ? |
| 14 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 15 | I still remember that day in the war when , as a very junior subaltern , my CO left me a little hand-written note admonishing me for appearing at breakfast unshaven . |
| 16 | good to use them for swinging in the trees . |
| 17 | If charges are intended to raise money , it seems odd not to impose them for staying in hospital or visiting a GP . |
| 18 | People come up to them daily and thank them for helping with ‘ the best thing that 's happened to the valley in decades . ’ |
| 19 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 20 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 21 | The old system gave tax breaks for saving with life assurance companies ; the new one gives them for saving with banks and building societies . |
| 22 | Many teachers feel that their training inadequately prepares them for dealing with behaviour problems in schools ( Mongon 1984 ) . |
| 23 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 24 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |
| 25 | During the third week of the Council , Archbishop Parente appealed to African bishops for support , criticizing them for turning against their old masters ( many had been trained at Propaganda Fide ) and siding with the northern Europeans . |
| 26 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 27 | It was bought by the first buyers for the purpose of reselling in smaller quantities to be compounded into food for cattle and poultry and was resold by them for compounding into pig and poultry food . |
| 28 | The Higher Labour Court decided that having extramarital affairs with married women was not a violation of the contract of employment that would justify a dismissal , as this would have the effect of punishing someone for interfering in marital relations , which the German Code of Civil Procedure would not permit . |
| 29 | May we come to respect ourselves for sticking to our principles and living our lives with honesty and integrity . |
| 30 | There are changes we should all make ( if we have not made them already ) that have nothing to do with losing weight but are more to do with equipping ourselves for working at peak performance . |