Example sentences of "been forgive for [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |
2 | One might have been forgiven for believing that the answer was to be determined by the label adopted by Parliament in creating the body in question . |
3 | It was n't a four-letter word , although when one uttered it , one might have been forgiven for thinking that it was . |
4 | He could have been forgiven for thinking that he was God 's gift to acting . |
5 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
6 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
7 | Such was the enthusiasm generated by the thousands of kids at the game that a passer-by might have been forgiven for thinking that either Take That or New Kids On The Block were performing at Ibrox rather than Scotland 's football team . |
8 | With so much good will in the air one might have been forgiven for thinking that there were no differences worth talking about . |
9 | Some fifty successful local wage claims apart , and despite Wilson 's optimism in his Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the union in September 1916 , seamen might have been forgiven for concluding that patriotism had done very little for their cause . |