Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well nobody thanks you for doing without that . |
| 2 | Nobody kills anyone for saying something like that . |
| 3 | Somebody uses it for boozing sessions . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone admires her for working so hard , for thrashing herself relentlessly to entertain the troops and keep the fans happy . |
| 5 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 6 | I also discovered that Granpa used to switch suppliers regularly , ‘ just to be sure no one takes me for granted ’ . |
| 7 | The old system gave tax breaks for saving with life assurance companies ; the new one gives them for saving with banks and building societies . |