Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Forgive me for saying so but in East Prussia — Poland , I should say ! — we had our pick of game . |
| 2 | Forgive me for saying so but the lighting in here is appalling , you do n't you get headaches ? |
| 3 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 4 | Thank you very much and thank you for coming down and talking to us today . |
| 5 | ( She even had the ‘ temerity ’ to berate him for moving off while she was crossing . ) |
| 6 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity . |