Example sentences of "hate [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 2 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 3 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 4 | It hates you for putting it there , but is loyal to you because you bring it food . |
| 5 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 6 | I almost hate you for talking to me like this , when you know how you 've ruined my life ! |
| 7 | She almost hated them for ruining her life . |
| 8 | He hated me for attracting him . |
| 9 | And hated himself for depending on it . |
| 10 | He hated himself for pressing a dying friend , but some gut-fear , some primordial terror drove him on . |
| 11 | He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish . |
| 12 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 13 | Britta hated herself for wanting the arm to encircle her again . |
| 14 | She hated herself for wanting to know , but the words just seemed to leap out . |
| 15 | But most of all she hated herself for awakening in the darkness night after night , with Nicolo 's name on her lips and tears on her cheeks . |
| 16 | She hated herself for doubting him . |
| 17 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 18 | She hated herself for falling in love so easily with her handsome husband , who , she now realized , could not be trusted . |
| 19 | It was a long way to Hackballs Cross , and she hated herself for going , spat hatred at herself as she threw the Metro southwards . |
| 20 | If you 're back in time , come round , ’ she suggested , and hated herself for grovelling . |
| 21 | Her voice was like thin sharp ice , but not cold enough to fully hide the pain , and she hated herself for letting him hear it . |
| 22 | She hated herself for backing down , but what could she do ? |
| 23 | Sarella hated him for putting it so starkly . |
| 24 | He accepted this he was too young to do anything else — but he hated her for saying it . |
| 25 | Perhaps he hated her for inheriting most of the Havisham fortune . |
| 26 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 27 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 29 | I hated myself for letting you control my life when you despised me . ’ |
| 30 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |