Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | Cicely apologised for not being at Q.T. Day to thank everyone for supporting this Gala event . |
| 3 | WE had a lovely time in Lourdes , I want to thank everyone for looking after us both . |
| 4 | Erm could could I suggest that the committee might like er to ask me to right to the W I to thank them for getting a new piano ? |
| 5 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 6 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 7 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 8 | He wanted to thank me for having such an undying belief in his footballing ability and for working tirelessly to further his career in soccer . |
| 9 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 10 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 11 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 12 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 13 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 14 | And can you pardon me for coming to such a conclusion as that in the last line of my verses ? |
| 15 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 16 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 17 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 18 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 19 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 20 | How should I prepare them for repainting ? |
| 21 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 22 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 23 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 24 | ‘ Pardon me for livin' , lady . ’ |
| 25 | Pardon me for intruding . |
| 26 | Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks . |
| 27 | ‘ Pardon me for jumping to erroneous conclusions . |
| 28 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 29 | ( … sorry I 've got to go , sorry I 'm late , sorry I 'm so pretty , sorry I 'm a housewife , sorry I 'm not pretty enough , sorry it 's my fault , pardon me for breathing , sorry I 'm a woman . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , pardon me for breathing ! ’ |