Example sentences of "[pron] for [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryan even came to my home and scoffed at me for suggesting that he and the Duchess were lovers . |
| 2 | I am sure Martha will forgive me for saying that her very presence excites envy from others . |
| 3 | As regards the Niemecz mechanical organs bearing Haydn compositions : Neumann criticizes me for saying that the machines play ‘ within a narrow range , stating that the machines ’ air brakes can be set in such a way ‘ that the speed is either halved or doubled ’ , and that therefore ‘ the question of an absolute original tempo becomes pointless . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you for remembering that I wanted to see Karlovy Vary , ’ she opened sincerely . |
| 5 | That I think is my main concern , with a request in a sense to you for supporting that over the next year or so , because I 'll be trying to perhaps get invited to the meetings , and perhaps we 'll be inviting officers from the authority to join me in looking at ways of building up that local context in planning to get that into our formal planning systems . |
| 6 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 7 | Thank you for saying that to us , yes , I would n't have actually picked it up . |
| 8 | The pitch , without a blade of grass on it , looked such a good one for batting that the West Indies clearly felt that seven batsmen , even given the recent fallibility of their top order , were unnecessary . |
| 9 | He praises him for insisting that we free ourselves from the Idols , get rid of preconceived notions , and form our ideas on the basis of properly conducted experiments . |
| 10 | I loved him for saying that , for trying to cheer me up . |
| 11 | But it was the Victorian taste for jet , spurred by the Queen 's adoption of it for mourning that forged the unforgettable link with Whitby . |
| 12 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 13 | The practice of ‘ practical criticism ’ in fact unconsciously takes it for granted that the readers already know enough about poetry to have a grasp of rules and conventions sufficient to make adequate sense of the passage . |
| 14 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 15 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |
| 16 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 17 | They took it for granted that the international world was one of competing powers and that their duty was to make the most of whatever assets were available to them . |
| 18 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 19 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 20 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 21 | Do n't take it for granted that they 'll be OK . |
| 22 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 23 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 24 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 25 | Yet others may deplore British nationalism while taking it for granted that there is some homogeneous group called the British , thus conceding the basic premise for a British nationalism . |
| 26 | Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things . |
| 28 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't mind , ’ she explained , ‘ but they just took it for granted that she would go back to work and I would look after the baby , without even asking me . ’ |
| 30 | A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys . |