Example sentences of "[pers pn] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They will find out I 've done nothing and flog me for it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They 'll thank me for it one day : pelvic control is useful when you 're having a baby . ’ |
| 3 | And then she says with a faint show of importance , ‘ Of course the people here simply love me for it . |
| 4 | ‘ I know you love Hector , my lord , but I have to say it , if you kill me for it . |
| 5 | ‘ Take off those shoes , you 'll thank me for it later . |
| 6 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 7 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |
| 8 | I knew he 'd hate me for it . |
| 9 | He wrote back to thank me for it . |
| 10 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 11 | I happened to let slip how much James gave me for it . |
| 12 | You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come . |
| 13 | I was a player in a drama written and cast by Jean-Claude , who had not rehearsed me for it . |
| 14 | You may not like me for it but I will have to drive you hard if you are to learn all you will need to survive what you will face . |
| 15 | As they did so there came out of the mist a car and it must have seen the crows at me for it stopped . |
| 16 | I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behaviour , and I knew that he respected me for it . |
| 17 | First , I like her best , I think , and second , you 're paying me for it . ’ |
| 18 | It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’ |
| 19 | It 's happened and you ca n't condemn me for it . |
| 20 | In order to express charity and compassion I would have to travel far , since nobody near would have thanked me for it . |
| 21 | God forgive me for it ! ’ |
| 22 | I thought you might pay me for it . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you all hate me for it ? ’ asked Tess in a low voice . |
| 24 | But I do n't want to be alive when you reject me for it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have such confidence in Edgar 's love that I think I could kill him , and he would n't blame me for it . |
| 26 | It 'd be me for it , me and Mr Paviour and his lordship — ah , and in that order ! |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , ’ Mrs Porter nodded , ‘ but do n't thank me for it — it was Mrs Hamilton 's idea . |
| 28 | I was proud of my achievement — I had managed something that my mistress had not — I was pregnant with Abraham 's heir , and Sarah started to hate me for it . |
| 29 | Some of the women resent me for it . |
| 30 | You must hate me for it . ’ |