Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 2 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 3 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 4 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 5 | His final point about trust is fair enough , it sounds like he has had a gutful of Leeds fans berating him for sticking to his guns . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | If I had n't made that bet , and had n't then gone both ways , nine times out of ten Jude would have shown a beaten hand and raked in half the pot — while the lads trashed me for letting him off lightly . |
| 8 | Headed Deaf Motorists : Are They a Danger ? it argues convincingly that they are not , and explains that " unlike motorists who can hear , the deaf motorist never expects to receive any audible warning when on the road , and , therefore , never under any circumstances takes anything for granted . |
| 9 | Although McGregor was to be paid £50 000 , the same as the man he replaced , the British government had to pay Lazard Freres $4.1m. over five years to compensate them for losing McGregor . |
| 10 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 11 | One of the pourers reproved me for eating cheese before trying the wine . |
| 12 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 13 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 14 | Very few farmers prepared themselves for handing over , tending to assume that ‘ next year would be time enough ’ . |
| 15 | The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights takes it for granted not merely that all individual men are members of a single animal species , Homo sapiens , but that this biological fact carries with it moral implications . |
| 16 | It was always cold on Monaghan Day , the traditional day poor farmers sold their winter stock and the rich farmers bought them for fattening . |
| 17 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 18 | Spaniards respect her for keeping her schoolteacher 's job for as long as possible . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | While some gay rights groups denounced him for promoting negative stereotypes , ‘ Men On Film ’ also became a regular feature on the gay club circuit . |
| 21 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 22 | ‘ If your friends ’ mothers despise me for working in a supermarket , then they are to be pitied . |
| 23 | Mrs Bouverie knew this , and she also knew that the Loxford mothers despised her for meeting a child of ten . |
| 24 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Opponents condemn it for making profit from punishment . |
| 26 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |
| 27 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |
| 28 | He seemed as happy as Larry trailing round the greasy dustbins of Bristol till nuclear war broke out or the police nabbed him for pilfering a used Tesco bag . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A group of physically handicapped people are protesting over plans to charge them for using day centres . |