Example sentences of "[pron] for [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 2 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 3 | A creature , therefore , can be taught nothing for which the inner , instinctive potential is not already present as a latent pattern in mind and muscle . |
| 4 | The church has nothing for which to apologize . |
| 5 | He needed all those things in me for which you had no use , pity , indulgence , even forgiveness . |
| 6 | I am not going out of my mind , she thought , and if , at the moment , the outside world does not recognise me for what I am , my sister knows she has only to speak a word here and there , to take a decision , and who will listen to me ? |
| 7 | ‘ I pray you forgive me for what happened yesterday . |
| 8 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I want you to console me for what is inconsolable , ’ I wrote to Elizabeth . |
| 10 | ‘ She blamed Freddie and me for what went wrong but within two weeks she 'd died herself ; she had never recovered from the birth . ’ |
| 11 | Horbury , 55 , said : ‘ I 'm sure Daniel will never forgive me for what I 've done but I hope he does . ’ |
| 12 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 13 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 14 | And she looks up to me for what she sees as my drive , my opinionated wit . |
| 15 | I can wait until Mme Wyatt sees me for what I am , understands what Gillian sees in me . |
| 16 | The key to such a system is that everyone asks : Who in this organization depends on me for what information ? |
| 17 | I know that you 've never forgiven me for what happened , and I do n't blame you , darling . |
| 18 | He did not tell me for what crime , and I did not raise the subject with Jean-Claude . |
| 19 | and , personally , I 'd much rather have er , people looking at me for what I achieved er , rather than just looking pretty on a day , I think that 's more important to me . |
| 20 | ‘ If you are grateful to me for what I did in my childhood , I hope you have improved your way of life now . |
| 21 | " Please , Great-grandfather , do n't let my father be angry with me for what Kim did , " she prayed silently , closing her eyes as tightly as she could in an effort to add force to her thoughts . |
| 22 | " If my father decides to beat me for what I did , " he whispered fiercely to himself , " please help me to endure the pain and not to cry . |
| 23 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 24 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , ’ she said , ‘ I know you still blame me for what happened at Angmering . ’ |
| 26 | Nothing in my biologist 's intuition , nothing in my 20 years " experience of programming computers , and nothing in my wildest dreams , prepared me for what actually emerged on the screen . |
| 27 | ‘ Get back at me for what ? |
| 28 | ‘ The letter simply thanked me for what I had done and the senders signed themselves only as Berend 's Family . ’ |
| 29 | If they do n't love me for what I am that 's just tough shit ! |
| 30 | You 're having a go at me for what Penny and Natalie said and I never said it . |