Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 2 | A dark giant of a man , possibly Tonio , leaned out of the lorry 's cabin to thank them for pulling out of the way . |
| 3 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
| 4 | The rock thanked her for helping it . |
| 5 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 6 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 7 | Begone to thy corner , wench , lest thy paramour kill me for trampling thee under my foot . |
| 8 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |
| 9 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |
| 10 | ‘ Angela said the council wanted it for housing ? ’ |
| 11 | Er , I I 'll skip through it cos ' most people have n't got the copies with them , er we looked , you 'll remember that the A C C ops meeting thanked us for providing Beeston with a U V lamp for M O T examination . |
| 12 | Flick knives have caused problems when trying to decide whether they are offensive weapons by themselves ( with out having to prove the intent of the possessor to use them for causing injury ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you had no right to speak for me , ’ Merrill whispered in hushed irritation , ‘ no right to take it for granted that — ’ |
| 14 | The BBC Monitoring Service used them for deciphering ‘ jammed ’ radio broadcasts , and my solicitor , at least , was still dictating into an Edison Voicewriter in 1973 . |
| 15 | The chief minister of Maharashtra recently had to resign when a court indicted him for using his powers to speed up cement deliveries to people who gave money to his private foundation . |
| 16 | ‘ I expect it is , but it 's the truth , and you 're the last person to condemn me for telling the truth , even though it may offend you to hear it . ’ |
| 17 | Nor can an economist take it for granted that inflation will make people save more ( in the US they save less ) . |
| 18 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 19 | The fishmonger blessed her for calling and wished her a continued pleasant time in their beautiful city . |
| 20 | Even Nanny took it for granted . |
| 21 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 22 | I mean , what help has the British Government given us for preparing for 1992 ? |
| 23 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 24 | McDonald 's belongs to a federation of companies in the same business and the area man takes it for granted that the firm 's competitors will soon hear about the relaxed consent and apply to the agency for similar leniency . |
| 25 | The scrutiny takes nothing for granted but looks directly at what actually happens at all levels of the area under study . |
| 26 | It came out without her thinking , and Folly cursed herself for letting him slip so easily past her guard . |
| 27 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 28 | It is an elementary mistake to take it for granted that an act which has one symbolic meaning for us today possessed that same meaning eight hundred years ago . |
| 29 | Gown despised me for selling my soul to a shrill shallow shrew , town for being an old fart who could n't satisfy his frisky young mate . |
| 30 | Like Dexter , BBC pundit Lewis would receive a wage to compensate him for giving up his TV and newspaper work . |