Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 2 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 3 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 4 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 5 | Okay Jean thank you for raising the point . |
| 6 | Begone to thy corner , wench , lest thy paramour kill me for trampling thee under my foot . |
| 7 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 8 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 9 | God forgive me for lying , she thought . |
| 10 | God forgive me for lying , she thought . |
| 11 | See M er Martin tried to get it used as people use it for meeting rooms and things but er you see you ca n't park either can you ? |
| 12 | Spaniards respect her for keeping her schoolteacher 's job for as long as possible . |
| 13 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 14 | Fundamentalists execrate someone for writing a book that they have n't read , and a famous novelist has to go into hiding for fear of his life . |
| 15 | Most people take it for granted they can out-smart a peeper like me without too much trouble . |
| 16 | Mike thank you for joining us . |
| 17 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 18 | Opponents condemn it for making profit from punishment . |
| 19 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |
| 20 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 21 | Nor will future researchers thank us for leaving them a vast amount of dross which makes the location and comprehension of useful material more difficult . |
| 22 | Mr Chairman thank you for inviting me to speak and I think there 's a preliminary for what to get a member of the Committee to propose the resolution and second it . |
| 23 | Er er Chairman thank you for listening to use of the |
| 24 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 25 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 26 | Gransden and Eykyn chide us for mentioning kanamycin , which has been superseded in Britain by newer drugs . |
| 27 | The reason why there 's so much space above our heads here is simple : the climate controllers use it for inducing weather conditions for the whole of Arcady . ’ |
| 28 | erm Mr Power thank you for joining us . |
| 29 | Folks use them for making nature films ; bluetits in their nestboxes , badgers in their sets , intruders at the door . |
| 30 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |