Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet they 're thanking them for getting two hundred and fifty nicker |
| 2 | You 're paying him for knowing how to do it . |
| 3 | They said , ‘ We 're arresting you for loitering with the intent of prostitution . ’ |
| 4 | Fibre-optic broadcaster WilTel Corp will be using it for transmitting television programmes as will Vyvx Inc , which also provides videoconferencing , production and editing facilities to over 65 US cities . |
| 5 | I 'm reporting you for idling your time for two minutes . |
| 6 | City will be kicking themselves for allowing Cranfield to get back into the game , but the visitors must be given credit for a spirited second half performance . |
| 7 | He would not have reckoned on their single liaison having such an outcome , and he would be blaming her for failing to have taken precautions . |
| 8 | Some people back there would be cursing us for raising so much dust . |
| 9 | You will not be flirting at the kitchen door with the milkman and the coalman , and Matey will not be chasing you for doing so . ’ |
| 10 | That more likely is that you realised well nigh immediately that it was Mr , that 's why you said to Mr I 'm arresting you for harbouring an escapee . |
| 11 | It 's as if I 'm repaying him for looking after me at school . |
| 12 | Seventhly , if the German states were to express themselves for initiating movement toward German unity , would they be ready to take into consideration the interests of other European states and to seek , on a mutually acceptable collective basis , answers to all questions and problems that might arise in that regard ? |
| 13 | They were concerned least the Shah should think that they were rebuking him for comparing him unfavourably with them of steel . |
| 14 | MIPS is preening itself for getting the R4400 upgrade out in the timeframe it predicted it would a year ago . |
| 15 | So it 's cost me , it 's cost me for ordering the bloody thing |
| 16 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 17 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 18 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 19 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 20 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 21 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 22 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 23 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 24 | The examination under anaesthesia without consent is inexplicable ( unless it was to punish her for having refused examination when conscious ) . |