Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 2 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 3 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 4 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 5 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 6 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 7 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 8 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |
| 9 | Waterlife Research Industries have kindly replaced the test kit , even though they were not at fault and I would like to thank them for this . |
| 10 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 11 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 12 | Town says that , of Britain 's 100 most prescribed drugs , he can buy 67 abroad , sell them for 20 per cent less than the NHS price , and still make anything from 3 to 300 per cent profit . |
| 13 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 14 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 15 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 16 | BSDI 's motion to dismiss , which makes significant use of the Xerox/Apple precedent , claims USL 's failure to sue them for any patent , trade secret or copyright infringement , or even allege such a violation , taints their case . |
| 17 | You can treat me for free when you 're a doctor . " |
| 18 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 19 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 20 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 21 | You asked me for that ? |
| 22 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 23 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 25 | They asked me for more money . |
| 26 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 27 | Once again there are different ways in which such data are used , but all share the object of analysing the data anew , using them for different purposes than originally intended . |
| 28 | ‘ As long as nothing offensive is being said during Eircell mobile phone conversations , we have no power to stop anybody using them for any purpose , however peculiar . ’ |
| 29 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 30 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |