Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I am greeted by a timid and frail old man who , clutching his hands nervously , thanks me for coming : a greeting he continues to offer throughout my stay . |
| 4 | Well nobody thanks you for doing without that . |
| 5 | Thus a better strategy to employ is one that teaches her to wait and rewards her for doing so . |
| 6 | It optimises it for distributed massively parallel processing . |
| 7 | That is significant because that covers us for paying you commission . |
| 8 | Obviously blames me for sticking a needle into him , and I expect he always will . ’ |
| 9 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 10 | Nobody here blames you for listening . |
| 11 | He uses it for taping i at work . |
| 12 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 13 | Somebody uses it for boozing sessions . ’ |
| 14 | Nobody kills anyone for saying something like that . |
| 15 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 16 | It hates you for putting it there , but is loyal to you because you bring it food . |
| 17 | Many teachers feel that their training inadequately prepares them for dealing with behaviour problems in schools ( Mongon 1984 ) . |
| 18 | A LETTER reproves me for singling out rotten spelling in other places , notably The Guardian , and goes on to point out that this magazine is not immune . |
| 19 | After much hard work — Hunt castigates himself for driving the first third of the race like a ‘ grandmother ’ — Hunt eventually got by Jody when Scheckter was held up by a back-marker . |
| 20 | Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He condemns her for trying this trick , which is followed by a terrible fall downstairs in the course of an attempt to end her pregnancy . |
| 23 | Carter praises her for transcending the naturalistic , however — for taking off from it and creating something original . |
| 24 | The scrutiny takes nothing for granted but looks directly at what actually happens at all levels of the area under study . |
| 25 | I have told him he is n't the same man I married any more and he just takes me for granted . |
| 26 | I also discovered that Granpa used to switch suppliers regularly , ‘ just to be sure no one takes me for granted ’ . |
| 27 | Our consumer society demands these , yet takes them for granted . |
| 28 | It encourages in us an arrogance which takes everything for granted . |
| 29 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 30 | 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 . |