Example sentences of "forgive [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh well , ’ he said with a sigh , ‘ in the face of such force majeure , he may forgive me for capitulating . ’ |
| 2 | She ca n't forgive me for leaving and I 've had to accept that our relationship 's finally over . |
| 3 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Can you forgive me for going away ? |
| 5 | May Jupiter forgive me for saying this Buddy - but I do think his head would go nice on your mantelpiece . |
| 6 | Of course — if you will forgive me for saying so — it is a bit stilted in its present form . |
| 7 | I am sure Martha will forgive me for saying that her very presence excites envy from others . |
| 8 | If you will forgive me for saying so , you scarcely seem his type . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll forgive me for making the point , ’ said Calatin , ‘ but you do get the odd rebel , even these days . |
| 10 | But I will never forgive them for covering it up , ’ she told Edward Pilkington . |
| 11 | You can forgive them anything from this perspective ; you can almost forgive them for changing the clocks . |
| 12 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 13 | How can I forgive you for screwing my wife ? |
| 14 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And I shall never forgive you for tempting him away from me . |
| 16 | Afterwards , Wilson could not forgive herself for endangering these beautifully laid plans . |
| 17 | Especially the ‘ ancient ’ family who had sold her the house and now , pathologically , could not forgive her for buying it , since they had lost caste by moving away — unfortunately for Jane , only a mile away . |
| 18 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 19 | He would never forgive her for abandoning his child . |
| 20 | But Perdita would never forgive her for going out with Ricky . |
| 21 | ‘ How can you forgive him for leaving you ? ’ asked Meredith bluntly . |
| 22 | But some fans might not forgive him for leaving . |
| 23 | I 'll never forgive him for involving Silvia in all this . |
| 24 | I will never forgive him for letting her down . |
| 25 | Dick Crossman had been kept out of office or the expectation of it by both Attlee , who could not forgive him for resisting Bevin 's policy towards Palestine , and his successor . |
| 26 | You can forgive him for relaxing to a 69 . |
| 27 | I shall never forgive myself for leaving Sir Henry alone , ’ I whispered angrily . |