Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Forgive me for having addressed you so informally , Miss Bishop . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ Forgive me for saying so but in East Prussia — Poland , I should say ! — we had our pick of game . |
| 33 | ‘ Forgive me for saying so , but all this talk about Charlotte is making Mrs Durkin rather nervous . |
| 34 | Forgive me for saying so but the lighting in here is appalling , you do n't you get headaches ? |
| 35 | Now , when the old man jerked his head round in astonishment , she looked past him to smile encouragingly at her husband , saying , ‘ Forgive me for interrupting , David , but I was within earshot and , as you know , I take great exception to Mr Reynolds ’ particular brand of cruelty . ’ |
| 36 | Won t you forgive me for keeping it a secret ? ’ |
| 37 | Forgive me for keeping you up all night . |
| 38 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 39 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 40 | But does that stop the problem if if we report someone for depositing litter I E a settee , I mean they do n't want to really deposit it there , is it quality of life that 's forced them to do it . |
| 41 | You can also map almost anything to a key-combination on the keyboard — how does |
| 42 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 43 | She said , ‘ More fool you for leaving it in a car park , ’ and little Apricot said , ‘ Yes , that 's right , Mum . |
| 44 | Of course , more fool her for having succumbed to the moment , but it was over and done with , and that was the end of it . |
| 45 | Forgive him for seeing it differently . |
| 46 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 47 | Labour can not , on the one hand , criticise us for giving our system careful consideration and waiting until 1 April 1993 and , on the other hand , announce that they will bring in a scheme in 1992 with no system to back it up . |
| 48 | Begone to thy corner , wench , lest thy paramour kill me for trampling thee under my foot . |
| 49 | So it 's cost me , it 's cost me for ordering the bloody thing |
| 50 | Curse me for having nothing in this world to give him but gratitude ! ’ |
| 51 | organize you for doing that scan . |
| 52 | organize you for doing that scan . |
| 53 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 54 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 55 | I almost hate you for talking to me like this , when you know how you 've ruined my life ! |
| 56 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |
| 57 | ‘ That 's right , attack Em for leaving her blouse there , but if it 's seven of your shirts and seven each of the boys ’ , that 's twenty-one shirts ironed for you and there 's no word of it being a hand-me-down shop then , is there ? ’ |
| 58 | Director Chris Pond said : ‘ People will be faced with difficult choices , such as whether to use water for baths , or save it for cooking or to water the flower pots . ’ |
| 59 | Doubtless while our noble lords and masters stand back and applaud themselves for winning yet another battle . ’ |
| 60 | Gransden and Eykyn chide us for mentioning kanamycin , which has been superseded in Britain by newer drugs . |