Example sentences of "[pron] hate [pron] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps she thinks I hate her for giving me up . ’ |
| 3 | I hate myself for doing it , but it comes so naturally I have no choice . |
| 4 | I hate myself for asking , but why did you leave ? |
| 5 | I 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 8 | I hated myself for letting you control my life when you despised me . ’ |
| 9 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 10 | You hate him for coming because he 's told you that Gerry is n't just missing , but dead . |
| 11 | She hated herself for doubting him . |
| 12 | But most of all she hated herself for awakening in the darkness night after night , with Nicolo 's name on her lips and tears on her cheeks . |
| 13 | She hated herself for wanting to know , but the words just seemed to leap out . |
| 14 | She hated herself for remembering , not just that last ugly confrontation in the campagna but the things that had preceded it , the good things , starting with the fun they 'd had together and ending with that long , sweet night she 'd spent in his arms . |
| 15 | She hated herself for backing down , but what could she do ? |
| 16 | Her voice was like thin sharp ice , but not cold enough to fully hide the pain , and she hated herself for letting him hear it . |
| 17 | It was a long way to Hackballs Cross , and she hated herself for going , spat hatred at herself as she threw the Metro southwards . |
| 18 | She hated herself for falling in love so easily with her handsome husband , who , she now realized , could not be trusted . |
| 19 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 20 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 21 | It hates you for putting it there , but is loyal to you because you bring it food . |
| 22 | He hated her for making it impossible for him to bring women home . |
| 23 | Perhaps he hated her for inheriting most of the Havisham fortune . |
| 24 | He accepted this he was too young to do anything else — but he hated her for saying it . |
| 25 | He hated me for attracting him . |
| 26 | He hated himself for pressing a dying friend , but some gut-fear , some primordial terror drove him on . |