Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 2 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 3 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 4 | There are other delicious gestures drawing attention to the feet in La Fille Mal Gardée such as Mother Simone gently tapping her clogs as if thanking them for allowing her to show off her particular style of dance . |
| 5 | I bet they 're thanking them for getting two hundred and fifty nicker |
| 6 | The second was a letter to everyone who had volunteered , thanking them for offering to come , and saying when to turn up and what to bring . |
| 7 | And they have had many letters too — thanking them for giving the people of Tawau an electricity supply that is the envy of the rest of Eastern Malaysia . |
| 8 | Pauline began the Meeting by thanking everyone for attending the important meeting before lunch and for their concern for our future . |
| 9 | ‘ We thank the Government for relaxing these but this is rather like thanking somebody for refraining from hitting you on the head with a heavy stick , ’ said Brendan Burns , the federation 's Scottish-based UK vice-chairman . |
| 10 | Thanking him for giving me a lift , I sat down in the passenger seat and waited for Chapman to get moving . |
| 11 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 12 | The tree was decorated with lights by and his team of engineers , and was such a spectacle it resulted in a letter in the local paper from Santa Claus himself , thanking us for putting it up . |
| 13 | If you have a policy for housing , or anything else for that matter , how about sharing it with the rest of us , right and until you come up with an alternative policy , do n't you start knocking us for having a policy which we are prepared to debate . |
| 14 | The union acted wrongfully in dismissing him for insisting on his legal rights . |
| 15 | MIPS is preening itself for getting the R4400 upgrade out in the timeframe it predicted it would a year ago . |
| 16 | but when we come to testing them for reading erm on the national curriculum to say level one , level two , level three |
| 17 | Now he keeps blamin' me for keepin' her clean . |
| 18 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 19 | You 're paying him for knowing how to do it . |
| 20 | Making excuses e.g. excusing yourself for shouting at the babysitter — after all she was three minutes late |
| 21 | During the third week of the Council , Archbishop Parente appealed to African bishops for support , criticizing them for turning against their old masters ( many had been trained at Propaganda Fide ) and siding with the northern Europeans . |
| 22 | Getting nothing for doing nothing . |
| 23 | I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ . |
| 24 | Of course , I despised myself for despising them for showing such genuine and unselfish emotions , but that 's just one of the things you have to get used to when you 're in a serious self-destruction spiral . |
| 25 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 26 | Atherton batted beautifully for 42 but then left kicking himself for slamming a wide ball from Reiffel straight to cover off the back foot . |
| 27 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 28 | I 'm reporting you for idling your time for two minutes . |
| 29 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 30 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |