Example sentences of "[verb] me for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And can you pardon me for coming to such a conclusion as that in the last line of my verses ? |
| 8 | You probably hate me for saying that . ’ |
| 9 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 10 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 13 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 14 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 15 | ‘ Pardon me for livin' , lady . ’ |
| 16 | Pardon me for intruding . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Pardon me for jumping to erroneous conclusions . |
| 19 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 20 | ( … 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , pardon me for breathing ! ’ |
| 22 | Pardon me for saying so , that 's a lovely pen . |
| 23 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 24 | As regards the Niemecz mechanical organs bearing Haydn compositions : Neumann criticizes me for saying that the machines play ‘ within a narrow range , stating that the machines ’ air brakes can be set in such a way ‘ that the speed is either halved or doubled ’ , and that therefore ‘ the question of an absolute original tempo becomes pointless . ’ |
| 25 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 26 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
| 27 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 28 | They criticise me for getting a new curtain or taking a holiday . |
| 29 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 30 | ‘ And please forgive me for butting in on you like this . |