Example sentences of "for [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day after the Senate 's adjudication , the House of Representatives voted by 408 to 18 to reprimand Barney Frank , a Democratic representative for Massachusetts , for bringing discredit upon Congress through his relationship with a male prostitute . |
| 2 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |
| 3 | Could I just point out that councillor that contrary to call my bluff , deviation and repetition are no grounds for allowing allowing . |
| 4 | While training for preaching has happily improved since the Council , other factors have sadly hampered and slowed down the work of theological re-education . |
| 5 | It adds to the interest of the concern for preaching shown in this manuscript that Adalbert was the bishop whom Otto had in 960–1 sent to Princess Olga of Kiev . |
| 6 | At its most intrusive the V8 roars valiantly under full throttle , but there is no escaping the fact that for demanding driving this engine occasionally labours under the strain . |
| 7 | And damn him for daring to pry into my affairs and for subtly mocking my singular state ! |
| 8 | Or that of the poor themselves , for daring to bend their heads and stare ? |
| 9 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 10 | One of Jaci Stephen 's gems ( Spring Edition ) you omitted was the occasion she suggested that one man 's motive for daring to criticise her was a size limitation in the manhood department . |
| 11 | Should I cut off his fingers for daring to draw blood from your precious wife ? ’ |
| 12 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 13 | ‘ To those who compare Wokingham and Tredegar as if condemning Wokingham for daring to succeed , I say I want Tredegar and the valleys to understand and share more of Wokingham 's success . ’ |
| 14 | Lancaster only just tolerated Douglas 's interference , partly for old time 's sake and partly because Lancaster admired Kirk for daring to slight Hollywood 's conservatives by openly using blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus . |
| 15 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 16 | Leave it to the Shepherd Gallery — long known for daring to go where on one has gone before — to unearth Vickers 's work , which clearly influenced his subway designs . |
| 17 | Senior Chinese officials have blamed the damage to Hong Kong 's confidence variously on Hong Kong people themselves , for daring to demonstrate ; and on the British , an astonishing claim which was made by China 's principal representative in Hongkong , Xu Jiatun , the director of the New China News Agency , who said that the responsibility for restoring confidence in Hong Kong rested with London . |
| 18 | Panamanian students were shot in January 1964 for daring to demonstrate in favour of their flag . |
| 19 | We must remember that in 1600 , when Galileo was at Padua , the Inquisition had burned Giordano Bruno to death for daring to say that he did not believe in transubstantiation of bread into body and wine into the blood of Christ at the Eucharist . |
| 20 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 21 | Now , finally , a new order seems to be emerging , for which a big debt of gratitude is owed to Donovan Razor Ruddock and Britain 's Lennox Lewis for daring to have a face off for the chance to get a title shot . |
| 22 | Because tonight he would punish Detective Lieutenant Curtis for daring to offend him . |
| 23 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
| 24 | Their mission is to pursue the TARDIS through time and space and to exterminate its crew for daring to interfere in Dalek plans . |
| 25 | It was so successful that she was beaten by the authorities for daring to walk where only the rich were permitted to stroll . |
| 26 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 27 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 28 | Some reminded me of Wei Jingsheng , in his fifth year of solitary confinement for daring to speak out and discuss the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ . |
| 29 | For daring to speak out , he was assigned to a menial post unrelated to his speciality and skills . |
| 30 | Medics also responded to the feminist challenge by drawing on their new sexual ideology to label the ‘ shrieking sisterhood ’ as immoral and impure for daring to speak publicly about sexuality . |