Example sentences of "[pron] for [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , well you get nothing for grumbling do ya ? |
| 2 | He thanked me for helping take care of his grandmother . ’ |
| 3 | In our debate on that , the hon. Member for Wealden ( Sir G. Johnson Smith ) challenged me for daring to challenge the Prime Minister about whether the system would work . |
| 4 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 5 | Forgive me for having addressed you so informally , Miss Bishop . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 8 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ We are grateful to them for helping to liberate Belgium , ’ he says . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't blame them for trying to make a bit of cash , but it gets ridiculous when they insult you for refusing to pay for something you did n't want doing , ’ fumes Mel , 39 . |
| 11 | It would be nice if the NHS could do this , but you ca n't blame them for trying to raise money in other ways . |
| 12 | An enormous amount of skill , equipment , patience , money and sheer luck goes into the breeding of new varieties , and if it has become customary to have to be seen to be introducing six , eight , ten , a dozen or whatever new varieties every year in order to be regarded as one of the top flight nurseries , then that is what they have to do — and who can blame them for wanting to recoup their investment by selling all they can ? |
| 13 | Still hats off to the both of them for agreeing to work as shop assistants for the day to raise money for AIDS charity , the Terrence Higgins Trust . |
| 14 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 15 | But what , then , are we to make of it when , in 1939 , writing an obituary of Ford , Pound lumped together two old associates of his , Fred Manning and Henry Newbolt , and excoriated them for continuing to use the ‘ poetical ’ diction from which Ford 's timely polemics had weaned Pound himself ? |
| 16 | The second was a letter to everyone who had volunteered , thanking them for offering to come , and saying when to turn up and what to bring . |
| 17 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 18 | In 1629 the Tsar Mikhail severely reproved Louis XIII himself for failing to use his full title in official letters and warned him that " We can not approve your habit of wishing to be our friend and yet denying and taking from us the titles and qualities which almighty God has given us and which we so justly possess . " |
| 19 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 20 | He shifted impatiently as if annoyed at himself for having to stop to think . |
| 21 | He despised the little Jew for his grasping , mercenary manner , despised himself for having to use such trash . |
| 22 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 23 | Seemed proud of himself for having found out , because he said it 's supposed to be the planet 's big secret . |
| 24 | " I have , of course , contributed to the difficulty by taking my suspicions to the police — I ca n't blame you for wanting to get to the bottom of things . |
| 25 | I , the committee , and Hochhauser will probably sue you for refusing to go on , thereby breaking your contract ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't blame them for trying to make a bit of cash , but it gets ridiculous when they insult you for refusing to pay for something you did n't want doing , ’ fumes Mel , 39 . |
| 27 | ‘ I know you were promised to Craig , but no-one would blame you for trying to forget him . ’ |
| 28 | Er er Chairman thank you for listening to use of the |
| 29 | ‘ Goodbye , my dear , and thank you for stopping to talk to me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I never saw anyone like you for enjoying doing nothing , ’ Emmie said . |