Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague . |
| 32 | I 've used it for carrying pens — you do n't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live ! |
| 33 | We have used it for scouting exercises . ’ |
| 34 | Samson had clouted her for burning it — the beginning of a long bad day . |
| 35 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 36 | Bristling with moonstones , the collar was primitive and barbaric ; the mastiff of a prince of medieval Persia might have worn it for going out hawking in a miniature . |
| 37 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 38 | 10 And after he had seen the vision , immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia , assuredly " gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them . |
| 39 | She would never have forgiven herself for feeling it , nor him for becoming aware of it . |
| 40 | I just hope she gets arrested herself for wasting police time . |
| 41 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 42 | In December , after Eisenhower had belatedly denounced him for trying to " set himself above the laws of our land " , he was condemned by the Senate . |
| 43 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |
| 44 | He had never forgiven her for reporting his indiscretion in front of her husband . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 47 | They had given their only child the benefit of the doubt , but Paige had known , and Lori had hated her for knowing — and for not telling tales . |
| 48 | She hurried on to Horsfall Woods , stopping only at a sweetshop to buy a raspberry lollipop with the threepence Rosalind had given her for taking the letter . |
| 49 | The local people had stoned her for wearing trousers in the street and Fernando had ruefully added how things had changed since then — now anything went in Majorca . |
| 50 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 51 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 52 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 53 | As for his own comeback to the official international cricket scene , Gatting admitted : ‘ I 'd taken nothing for granted . |
| 54 | ‘ Mama — ’ Gratitude rushed up in him ; he realised that he had not always considered her , had taken her for granted , had consulted her in nothing ; and now she had probably saved his reason . |
| 55 | Richard Baxter , during the one time he was asked to preach before Oliver Cromwell , had criticised him for weakening the Church by encouraging divisions . |
| 56 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 57 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 58 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 59 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 60 | She had taken it for granted that if Isobel accompanied Hank to the ball , it would be a kind of aunt and nephew relationship , but now she wondered . |