Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] for [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |
| 2 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 3 | I applaud him for being able to marry self-interest with the needs of others . |
| 4 | I like them for being different , ’ said Corman . |
| 5 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 6 | I admire them for being able to sit there in front of everybody and say they actually , what they 've been through because it must have been sheer hell er , trying to come off and withdrawal symptoms , I mean , I do n't know much about it cos I 've never taken well I smoke |
| 7 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 8 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 9 | Silently she cursed herself for being such a damned fool . |
| 10 | In fact , you castigate yourself for being suspicious . |
| 11 | ‘ So you keep on saying , but can you blame me for being sceptical when I recall the sort of facts you apparently deal with ? ’ |
| 12 | Do you blame us for being worried ? ’ |
| 13 | Do you blame us for being worried ? ’ |
| 14 | At others , she despised herself for being selfish , even wicked , for not being able to help people who needed her support so much . |
| 15 | Because they all hate us , they hate us for being different , for not being them , for their own not being like us . |
| 16 | I understood him to reproach us for being slow in commissioning the fourth vessel . |
| 17 | He blames himself for being naive about how such centres come into being , and about how they can be run . |
| 18 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 19 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 20 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 21 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |