Example sentences of "for [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And how very understated and very British , with every man of its crew trying not to show how pleased he was or how embarrassed , and quietly thanking the good Lord for getting them out of the mess in the Bay , and if He would n't mind , could some other perishing submarine have the next thirty-eight ? |
| 32 | ‘ This is ludicrous because we are responsible for getting them out of any real trouble , should it arise . |
| 33 | Kelburne , winners of the title for the past three years are always at their best when forced into a tight corner and so on this occasion Magee was the man responsible for getting them out of jail . |
| 34 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 35 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 36 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 37 | ‘ Then I 'll work out a route for getting us back behind our own lines . ’ |
| 38 | Abrams , having mumbled about ‘ the gratitude of the secretary ( of state ) and of the President for getting us out of this jam ’ , was asked by Ibnu again : ‘ But what concrete do we get out of this ? ’ |
| 39 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 40 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand that I can make no comments about the merits of the proposal which is the subject of our debate or about the case for calling it in for determination by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 41 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 42 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |
| 43 | I 've yet to work out why you were quite so angry with me just for hauling you out of the water , Caroline . ’ |
| 44 | You may find the competitive element useful for stirring you on to greater efforts , and you will certainly find it reassuring to know that you share a common problem and that there is not something intrinsically wrong with you . |
| 45 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 46 | Spiderglass treated her well on the trip to the spiders of Earth but that was no compensation for ripping her out of her own charmed cocoon . |
| 47 | He felt grateful to her for dragging him out of the pit and back into the daylight . |
| 48 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 49 | She liked him , too , for being a poet , and for taking her out to things , but she often wondered whether her interest in his poetry were not as superficial as her interest in his name . |
| 50 | The teacher can comment on the images , as in this example ; but with a large part of the class functioning as an audience we have an opportunity for involving them actively in the process and developing the sense that in educational drama the " audience " should be active and responsible . |
| 51 | The enemy prisoners and hurt could be left to find their way back to Roxburgh as best they could , stripped of their arms , armour and anything else worth having — although some of the mosstroopers were for slaying them out of hand . |
| 52 | Similarly the wife of a Yorkshire brassworker could never forgive her parents for handing her over to be brought up by her retired grandparents , who had come to live nearby after their glassworks business had failed . |
| 53 | They were concerned least the Shah should think that they were rebuking him for comparing him unfavourably with them of steel . |
| 54 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 55 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 56 | At first , Theda did not know whether she was more angry with Lady Merchiston for loaning her out like this , or with Mrs Rosalia Alderley for making such an impertinent request . |
| 57 | ‘ And I shall never forgive you for tempting him away from me . |
| 58 | ‘ The Keeper 's for putting her out of her misery now , Mr Wolski and from a scientific point of view I 'm inclined to agree with him . |
| 59 | Though Bobby could not return his feelings their friendship survived : Bobby had a knack for making something out of any situation and in Minton 's company a lot of fun was to be had . |
| 60 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |