Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 2 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 3 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 4 | He rebuked me for liking it . |
| 5 | . And they were n't the Victorian prizes , that I won , I we got them for getting through an exam , because you could write or something , and er tt well , they were quite good books , and it was one way of getting a book . |
| 6 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 7 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 8 | The BBC Monitoring Service used them for deciphering ‘ jammed ’ radio broadcasts , and my solicitor , at least , was still dictating into an Edison Voicewriter in 1973 . |
| 9 | ‘ You have been impolite to Sister Mary because she chastised you for taking your visitor out into the garden . |
| 10 | Then she scolded herself for getting carried away , when she should be preparing how best to approach her mother over the subject of Elaine . |
| 11 | She felt a sharp pang at the thought that he could n't possibly desire her , and scolded herself for feeling like that . |
| 12 | The fishmonger blessed her for calling and wished her a continued pleasant time in their beautiful city . |
| 13 | He was not always praised for deserting the naturalistic mode : old Mr Rent-a-Plot himself , John Mortimer , chastised him for doing precisely that in The Old Men at the Zoo . |
| 14 | The delicate poetry of the atmosphere William seeks to establish is disrupted not only by that noisily symbolic iguana but by such clumping speeches as Shannon 's explanation that his problems began when his mother punished him for masturbating . |
| 15 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 16 | Kilcline got the ball in the net with a header after 80 minutes but the referee Roger Milford disallowed it for pushing . |
| 17 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 18 | ‘ We used it for shirting in 1992 and we 're using it in blends with linen for suitings for spring 1993 . ’ |
| 19 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 20 | A thickly built oak and beechwood sixteenth-seventeenth century refectory table from the Pyrenees , admittedly characterful ( Tajan 's auction staff used it for stacking their telephones on ) but more than difficult to place in a modern apartment , sold for FFr650,000 ( £67,550 ; $117,500 ) , over twice its high estimate . |
| 21 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 22 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 23 | At the end of that time ‘ he qualified himself for practising whether as a physician or a surgeon ’ , and returned to Bedfordshire where , ‘ with the consent of the Clergy and the local practitioners , he attended the destitute poor ’ . |
| 24 | Around 400 leftwing priests , students and human rights activists staged a demonstration near Ms Aquino 's palace yesterday and condemned her for seeking US help to crush the coup attempt . |
| 25 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 26 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 27 | The chief minister of Maharashtra recently had to resign when a court indicted him for using his powers to speed up cement deliveries to people who gave money to his private foundation . |
| 28 | The servant also said Mick phoned Jerry on Monday and blasted her for discussing their marriage in public . |
| 29 | A POLICEMAN dived into a canal to pull a driver from his crashed car — then booked him for going through a red light . |
| 30 | ‘ Hear now the axe sing — Axe of Gillian — Gil-lian made me — Shaped me for slaying ! ’ |