Example sentences of "[pron] for [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 2 | But wider , deeper and larger considerations had to be taken on board and at this stage I do n't know if any of the money will be available to me for replacing Batty if he goes . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Pa would 've been livid with me for getting pregnant , and he would n't want his precious fiddle going to pay for anything to do with it . ’ |
| 4 | He apologised to me for paying insufficient attention while entering a strange harbour . ’ |
| 5 | I write this letter in the hope that someone will explain the errors of my ways , forgive me for mixing relativistic and Newtonian physics , and enlighten me . |
| 6 | Blame me for becoming poor if you like — I admit , I blew it — but the responsibility for the way our society treats its poorer members is not exclusively mine . |
| 7 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
| 8 | Indeed , multiproduct companies will normally have a variety of means open to them for breaking even on their operation , some of which may be approximately equally efficient , so that governmental intervention to choose one amongst them , something facilitated by state ownership , is not necessarily inefficient . |
| 9 | Many lower-level headmen received a legitimate income by retaining a proportion of the fees paid to them for issuing various licences and for other duties . |
| 10 | Good luck to them for winning international honours at that level . |
| 11 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |
| 12 | Battling clans and pursuing Redcoats cursed them for presenting huge obstacles denying fast military movement around the Highlands , whereas the Victorians regarded them as sporting playgrounds and background subject matter for romantic oil paintings of the fat , unattractive aristocracy and their useless families . |
| 13 | If one runs out of the latter one can use paper tissues instead , though I would n't recommend them for pressing fragile flower heads as the tissues can leave a slight pattern on the petals . |
| 14 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 15 | I do n't blame you for looking edgy . ’ |
| 16 | Thank you for supporting new artists over the years and for being the most adventurous and innovative of magazines . |
| 17 | Thank you for receiving WISE VI and I am sure that through our joint efforts , the visit will achieve the objectives we all support . |
| 18 | Thank you for flying Maggovertski Airways ; please return the stewardess her pantyhose , put her in the upright position , and kindly pray that the tyres do n't blow . ’ |
| 19 | Thank you for choosing General Accident as your Insurer . |
| 20 | Thank you for choosing General Accident as your Insurer . |
| 21 | Thank you for choosing General Accident as your Insurer . |
| 22 | Thank you for choosing General Accident as your Insurer . |
| 23 | Thank you for choosing General Accident as your Insurer . |
| 24 | Thank you for choosing General Accident as your Insurer . |
| 25 | Thank you for choosing General Accident as your Insurer . |
| 26 | Thank You for choosing General Accident as your insurer . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't blame you for getting jittery . |
| 28 | This young London , happy tonight to be among its own kind , sometimes dangled a polythene bottle of cider by the neck , laughed at itself for acting crazy on the dancefloor , and now and again tried to look thick , or stoned . |
| 29 | And , in any case , it is ridiculous to condemn boxing itself for attracting black aspirants when the reasons for their involvements are rooted in historical and social processes . |
| 30 | Among their number is a plastic whisk ( one blade slightly eggy ) , something for removing radioactive worm casts from the mechanism of a Sturmey Archer three-speed bicycle gear-change system , and an item my dear departed grandfather left me which is yellow in parts and very old . |