Example sentences of "forgive [pron] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 32 | He also added that Moore had never asked them to forgive her for throwing their lives into grief and chaos . |
| 33 | ‘ Oh well , ’ he said with a sigh , ‘ in the face of such force majeure , he may forgive me for capitulating . ’ |
| 34 | She ca n't forgive me for leaving and I 've had to accept that our relationship 's finally over . |
| 35 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Can you forgive me for going away ? |
| 37 | May Jupiter forgive me for saying this Buddy - but I do think his head would go nice on your mantelpiece . |
| 38 | Of course — if you will forgive me for saying so — it is a bit stilted in its present form . |
| 39 | I am sure Martha will forgive me for saying that her very presence excites envy from others . |
| 40 | If you will forgive me for saying so , you scarcely seem his type . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ You 'll forgive me for making the point , ’ said Calatin , ‘ but you do get the odd rebel , even these days . |
| 42 | But I will never forgive them for covering it up , ’ she told Edward Pilkington . |
| 43 | You can forgive them anything from this perspective ; you can almost forgive them for changing the clocks . |
| 44 | ‘ He never really forgave me for leaving home , ’ she said to Peter . |
| 45 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 46 | Jack for one never forgave himself for encouraging the venture in the first place . |
| 47 | How can I forgive you for screwing my wife ? |
| 48 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 49 | ‘ And I shall never forgive you for tempting him away from me . |
| 50 | Afterwards , Wilson could not forgive herself for endangering these beautifully laid plans . |
| 51 | Especially the ‘ ancient ’ family who had sold her the house and now , pathologically , could not forgive her for buying it , since they had lost caste by moving away — unfortunately for Jane , only a mile away . |
| 52 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 53 | He would never forgive her for abandoning his child . |
| 54 | But Perdita would never forgive her for going out with Ricky . |
| 55 | ‘ How can you forgive him for leaving you ? ’ asked Meredith bluntly . |
| 56 | But some fans might not forgive him for leaving . |
| 57 | I 'll never forgive him for involving Silvia in all this . |
| 58 | I will never forgive him for letting her down . |
| 59 | Dick Crossman had been kept out of office or the expectation of it by both Attlee , who could not forgive him for resisting Bevin 's policy towards Palestine , and his successor . |
| 60 | You can forgive him for relaxing to a 69 . |