Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My grandma told my father off for growing a beard . |
| 2 | In view of her lust for life , her appetite simply for living ? |
| 3 | Its unsuitability therefore for gaining understanding of religion is becoming more widely appreciated . |
| 4 | She could have bitten her tongue out for asking it . |
| 5 | he said he said what he 's gon na do is erm is he 's got his name down for buying a trailer for it as well |
| 6 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |