Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 3 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 4 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
| 5 | Nobody could have blamed him for trying it on , could they ? |
| 6 | ‘ Had Diana been within 10 miles of Windsor Castle on the day of the fire , they would have blamed her for starting it , ’ admitted a senior royal source last night . |
| 7 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 8 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 9 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 10 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 11 | A policeman had suspected them for loitering about , they would n't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves . |
| 12 | You are all familiar with our loyal supporters , but what about those people on the fringes who may have given a donation or done something for Save The Children in the past , but never really followed it up and there are the people who are interested who think , it 's a charity I feel I ought to support . |
| 13 | I remember it was he himself who put it most aptly one day when mother had scolded him for commencing work at home on a customer 's suit . |
| 14 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 15 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 16 | Very few farmers prepared themselves for handing over , tending to assume that ‘ next year would be time enough ’ . |
| 17 | She done us for skating up the fucking |
| 18 | Has your doctor ever treated you for drinking ? 20 . |
| 19 | No , I 've always admired them for doing it their own way and getting away with it all the way to the end . |
| 20 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 21 | The Duchess of York , in the region to visit one of her favourite charities , has thanked THEM for supporting her . |
| 22 | watch their fees , but they have n't watched yours for crying out loud it 's quite obviously , but I think it 's , it 's ridiculous , because you 're looking at doing it that way , the other , it 's ridiculous |
| 23 | ‘ Something like that … though I would n't have thanked you for saying so . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It looks as if we 've got you for resisting arrest as well , ’ he told her grimly . |
| 25 | I 've got a few awards over the years , and I ca n't quite remember what some of them were given for , but I 've only ever got one for writing and that 's the one I would n't want to give away . |
| 26 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 27 | I had n't thanked him for doing the walls . |
| 28 | It was only as she rounded the corner that she remembered she had n't thanked him for walking her home . |
| 29 | But Marwood refuses to take issue with Bassett and , instead , has thanked him for furthering his management ambitions . |
| 30 | Oh , what a fool Fernando must have thought her for finding anything suspicious in a locked door . |