Example sentences of "of [pron] for [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll say this for old Wix , ’ he went on when the spasm had passed , ‘ though he does n't approve of me for not toting a gun , he 's bloody good to the old man . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal . |
| 3 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 4 | Her voice was very steady , monotonous and unemotional , and she was proud of herself for not giving in . |
| 5 | That Aethelheard 's flight was not generally seen as discreditable is clear from Leo III 's subsequent praise of him for endangering his life against ‘ Julian the Apostate ’ , as the pope described Eadberht , but Alcuin gave Aethelheard no such credit and remained highly critical of him for allegedly neglecting his Christian duty and it is possible that in his absence the Kentish leaders were considering the election of another archbishop . |