Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deputy Under Secretary had no one but himself to blame for the irritation that his starched collar created just below the line of his neatly cut hair . |
| 2 | But the twist is who will be the one to die for the rest and the storyline comes from a real incident . |
| 3 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 4 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 5 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 6 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |