Example sentences of "[pron] for be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People always take me for being drunk . |
| 2 | He was annoyed at himself for being pleased by his son 's initial welcome . |
| 3 | His salacious grin faltered then disappeared and he glared at her , furious with himself for being tricked so easily . |
| 4 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 5 | Winser was looking disgusted with himself for being caught . |
| 6 | But he hated himself for being drawn to her , however briefly , because he was personally involved … |
| 7 | Once again , thank you for being invited and thank the people who have the foresight and er tremendous energy to undertake this project . |
| 8 | Cross with herself for being fooled , her answer was short and to the point . |
| 9 | She was angry with herself for being moved by this completely unexpected glimpse into his past . |
| 10 | She hated herself for being impressed and frightened by London , but she was impressed and frightened all the same . |
| 11 | Such , briefly , was the young schoolmistress in the slum school , caught with the tawse in her hand , and hating herself for being caught this way — these crying children , and feeling like an ogre . |
| 12 | He swooped on Preminger who rebuked him for being drunk , raging , ‘ You ver drunk last night and you are drunk now . ’ |
| 13 | He receives his 1687.50 in margin plus an invoice ( or settlement ) amount to compensate him for being allocated a time deposit yielding less than the settlement interest rate . |
| 14 | Susan Snaith from Stanley selected TVam weather girl Ulrika as her body model ‘ I envy her for being voted best bum . |
| 15 | ‘ Besides , ’ said Garvin , ‘ all he wants it for is to go to Monte Carlo again . |
| 16 | The Alliance to Save Energy , a coalition of US environmental groups , has called the plan " woefully inadequate " , criticising it for being geared solely to the needs of the power industries . |
| 17 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 18 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |