Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she looked blank he went on : ‘ Wickham had Pascoe in for questioning this afternoon . |
| 2 | He liked Fairfax better for asking about deer . |
| 3 | He erm such a farce he told Nigel off for showing showing off . |
| 4 | Pound was to mock Yeats indulgently for seeing in Notre Dame not a physical presence in worked stone , but only a symbol ; yet in Sicily Pound 's seems to have been the mind that was symbologizing . |
| 5 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 6 | He could not thank Mr Yarrow enough for having introduced him . |
| 7 | I thanked God then for answering my prayer . |
| 8 | A ROYAL Navy technician who was extradited to New Zealand from Britain was jailed for five and a half years in Christchurch yesterday for snatching a woman off a beach and raping her . |
| 9 | A man has been jailed in Oxford today for causing grievous bodily harm to a tanker driver . |
| 10 | This was pioneered by scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US specifically for detecting single atoms of one particular element . |
| 11 | Kenneth Shoane , 66 , was bound over for two years by Maidstone Crown Court in Kent yesterday for making threats to kill Kate Kray , 35 . |
| 12 | CRIPPLED teenager Steven Nash won £674,500 damages and the admiration of a High Court judge in London yesterday for battling against ‘ grievous disabilities ’ and passing eight GCSEs . |
| 13 | CHEERS actor George Wendt lashed out at co-star Ted Danson yesterday for killing off the top rated show . |