Example sentences of "with [pron] for [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Claude would be pleased with me for staying out of the attic . |
| 2 | And she was annoyed with them for knowing so much , she had begun to feel safe in the hotel . |
| 3 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 4 | Driving back from seeing Ray Darby , Wickham was stern with himself for having twice in one day fallen into reminiscence about Vanessa . |
| 5 | ‘ How are you ? ’ he asked , and was annoyed with himself for sounding so effusive . |
| 6 | Yet although she was annoyed with herself for doing so , she was now coming home again every night by the route where she had so often met him . |
| 7 | She did cry a little , almost soundlessly , and was furious with herself for doing so , her tears mingling with the spray of the shower . |
| 8 | Lissa hated the cold incisiveness of his tone , and she was angry with herself for caring so much . |