Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 2 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 3 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 4 | ‘ That serves me right for going out to fetch it fresh . ’ |
| 5 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 6 | Rounding the bend from the top path down towards the stable she was brandishing a stick , beating the cows ' dripping rumps and cursing them aloud for refusing to hurry . |
| 7 | I 've yet to work out why you were quite so angry with me just for hauling you out of the water , Caroline . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am a bit scared of him , ’ admitted Angela ; ‘ but he might behave himself now for spoiling my Gnome costume . |
| 9 | ‘ Serves you right for overdoing it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They 're not going to shoot you just for trying . |
| 11 | Thank you also for listening to my story . |
| 12 | Thank you both for having us . |
| 13 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 14 | Thank you all very much indeed and thank you particularly for making an effort to come and join us at the A G M , apart from the fact that it would be tedious in the extreme to look at an empty room , I do understand |
| 15 | Thank you again for inviting me — sorry we had to leave early-ish — we left at 8am on Saturday ( yawn ! ) |
| 16 | Thank you again for taking the trouble to write expressing your views , and thank you also for your valued support of our Club . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ Thanks for walking me home , and thank you again for taking me to Pepe 's . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Thank you again for bringing me home . ’ |
| 19 | Thank you again for giving us an opportunity to view your proposals at this stage . |
| 20 | Both girls quickly turned their faces away , just in case he would want to take revenge on them later for having witnessed his humiliation . |
| 21 | Not that magnification is all-important ; it is far better to have a smaller , well-defined image than a larger , blurred one even for observing the Moon or a planet . |
| 22 | She picked up her bag and followed him out to his car , hating him for making her feel so gauche , and hating herself more for acting that way in the first place . |
| 23 | She cursed herself silently for letting her guard drop . |
| 24 | I know I would and I would n't blame anybody else for doing so . |
| 25 | Serves him right for sucking up to them — being the Thinking Person 's Tory , and all that , eh ? |
| 26 | I 'm afraid I lost my temper and said if he 'd fallen foul of the IRA it bloody well served him right for supporting them . ’ |
| 27 | Serves him right for leaving it open . |
| 28 | Serves him right for biting off more than he could chew … but then , he 's always doing that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Serves him right for pigging out on egg and pickle sandwiches ! ’ |
| 30 | I admired him for his decision then , I admired him for not thinking being world champion was worth the risk , and I admire him still for maintaining a moral stance . |