Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | I know that you 've never forgiven me for what happened , and I do n't blame you , darling . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
| 9 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 10 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 11 | A physicist colleague has kindly calculated them for me . |
| 12 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 13 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 14 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 15 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 16 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 17 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 18 | Gail Smith writes ‘ The burden God has given me for Albania took root in 1982 the first time I ever heard mention of the country and people . |
| 19 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 20 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 21 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 22 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 23 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 24 | ‘ After I 've boiled them for stock of course . ’ |
| 25 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 26 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 27 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 28 | That is what the Holy Spirit is given them for . |
| 29 | Lloyd spoilt it , of course , with an unbeaten 60 that helped his team to 190 all out , but having dismissed them for their lowest total in years England had to feel confident . |
| 30 | ‘ Have n't you punished me for long enough ? |