Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regarded it with distaste , decided that the rain would have washed it reasonably clean , then dragged it clear of the bog myrtle and looked around me for somewhere to dump it out of sight . |
| 2 | Mr. Kasner 's explanation in his evidence to me for thus acting and accepting the proposal was the following : |
| 3 | It took me for ever to decide on the colour , style and material it was to be made in . |
| 4 | In a review of the first edition of this book , Sara Mills took issue with me for pessimistically implying that linguistic reform is impossible ; she pointed out , and I think with some justice , that my analysis risks leaving women with no way to hit back when they are confronted with sexist language , at least until after the revolution . |
| 5 | Pleasure boats , but people could use them for just getting around anywhere ? |
| 6 | Although all sets and costumes were designed in colour , a lot of ingenuity needed to be applied to make the sets visually more interesting to the viewers ; compensating them for only seeing everything in monochrome and through a slightly muzzy 405 line picture . |
| 7 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 8 | The company which had discovered and later granted licences for the drug , Chemie Grunenthal of Germany , had criminal charges brought against them for deliberately falsifying the test data and concealing the truth about the drug 's serious side effects ( Sunday Times Insight Team 1979 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The thanks of everyone in the company are due to them for really pulling out the stops when it was needed ’ . |
| 10 | Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal . |
| 11 | Even in such exalted company , Rozhdestvensky holds his own ( although Szell 's breathtaking final coda to the Marche remains a uniquely compelling experience ) , and what a joy to hear a native Russian orchestra accorded engineering which for once does them proud ! |
| 12 | He was lined up to do this independent film ‘ which for once had some decent money attached ’ . |
| 13 | Government spending is determined by government policy and investment depends to some extent on the rate of interest ( which for now does not appear in the model ) and businessmen 's expectations . |
| 14 | An understanding of industrial relations in the Netherlands , for instance , requires an appreciation of the vertical segregation ( or ‘ pillarised ’ structure ) between religiously defined groupings and non-denominational organisations which for long characterised Dutch society and affected not only unions but also employers . |
| 15 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 16 | So far , only gay men , who for long have had to think and make choices about maleness , have had the nerve to make a meal of male sexuality . |
| 17 | Lucker returns from town , having made a whole tribe of redneck friends who for once put away their normal prejudices for the sake of broadening their knowledge . |
| 18 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 19 | Q Firstly , can I thank you for always answering my computing problems and secondly , is there any chance of getting more coverage of networks ? |
| 20 | But all in all erm I admire you for actually to hang in there , there was a few pregnant pauses but you kept going . |
| 21 | The syndrome of dyspraxia of deaf children comprises that the child clearly suffers from dyspraxia or apraxia with dysrhythmia or arhythmia and that the child , his memory as such being normal , shows a typical profile of a strong memory for simultaneously presented visual data and a relatively weak one for successively presented visual data . |
| 22 | Cross with herself for even trying to work out his peculiar behaviour , she climbed out and dried herself . |
| 23 | It was as painful as hell , and she despised herself for even caring what he had thought of Mark 's abilities , but for some reason she desperately needed to know . |
| 24 | And then Ellie was exasperated with herself for even caring . |
| 25 | Unless the man is a total stranger — and sometimes even then , too — a woman may blame herself for somehow having failed to prevent the attack . |
| 26 | Sally asked , hating herself for still wanting him . |
| 27 | She went close and bent over Midnight , scolding herself for ever having left him . |
| 28 | Valerie listened for suspicious sounds on the tape , and despised herself for so doing . |
| 29 | Lydia did not castigate herself for so disliking a fellow-being , believing that it was sufficient merely to refrain from overt unkindness . |
| 30 | She 'd also had time to castigate herself for meekly following him inside . |