Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also added that Moore had never asked them to forgive her for throwing their lives into grief and chaos . |
| 2 | ‘ Part of me hates him , ’ he admitted , ‘ and the other part of me hates myself for feeling jealous of such a fantastic guy . ’ |
| 3 | I despise you , and I despise myself for needing you , but I do need . ’ |
| 4 | How should I prepare them for repainting ? |
| 5 | How should I prepare it for redecorating ? |
| 6 | Perhaps she thinks I hate her for giving me up . ’ |
| 7 | I hate myself for doing it , but it comes so naturally I have no choice . |
| 8 | I hate myself for asking , but why did you leave ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 11 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 12 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I hated myself for letting you control my life when you despised me . ’ |
| 16 | I hated myself for wounding him , and for perhaps driving him to a life of wickedness , or even death . |
| 17 | I admired them for doing openly what many women do in secret or under the respectable cover of marriage . |
| 18 | I cursed myself for having made such a feeble thing of life before being shot down . |
| 19 | I like it for toast June . |
| 20 | Oh , Maggie , I 'm sorry I blamed you for telling Felipe . |
| 21 | Bedelia was busy roasting dandelion roots , I thanked her for having us and gave her the royal wave . |
| 22 | Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me . |
| 23 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 24 | ‘ I arrested her for soliciting . ’ |
| 25 | Can I thank you for sharing with us the the example of the concentration , that you put so much in such a short time . |
| 26 | Can I thank you for coming today , th th the media often has lots of comments from the chattering classes , saying unhealthy , British democracies , cos they only concentrate on this place . |
| 27 | I loved him for saying that , for trying to cheer me up . |
| 28 | on this , and I 'll reiterate this , is the process that we go through as I understand it for introducing procedures , is that we take a diagonal slice through the organization er in other words there 's a draft procedure produced . |
| 29 | ‘ And I envy you for living here in these surroundings . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't chew my nails with regret at giving him my virginity , furious at my weakness in lying down for him , and taking this boy in my arms just because he was English , a citizen of that great nation which had once ruled half the globe : nor did I blame myself for clinging on to an idea even though it meant severing my links with my country , and travelling to London alone without any member of my family . |