Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 2 | Kate , you 've got an awful lot to forgive me for , have n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 5 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 6 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 7 | Sometimes , new ideas involve such radically novel perspectives that the lack of key individuals ‘ in the chain of thought leading up to them … could easily have delayed them for … a generation ’ . |
| 8 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 9 | The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness . |
| 10 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 11 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 12 | ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’ |
| 13 | I know that you 've never forgiven me for what happened , and I do n't blame you , darling . |
| 14 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 15 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 16 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
| 17 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 18 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 19 | But concentrating on the true politics of smoking will help us to see them for what they are : romantic illusions . |
| 20 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 21 | It would be better to admit that these murderous wishes and impulses exist than to deny them , and feel guilt-laden as a result of not allowing ourselves to see them for what they are . |
| 22 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
| 23 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 24 | In 1913 he came under pressure in the Commons for his failure to promote an air force ; Samuel Hoare demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the government 's policy by visiting the air bases to see them for himself . |
| 25 | It can not deal with the problems that do exist , because it fails to see them for what they are . |
| 26 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 27 | I feel deeply sorry for both Boo and Imamu because they both have to prove themselves before people actually begin to see them for what they really are which are two very kind and loving people . |
| 28 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 29 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 30 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |