Example sentences of "for making [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 2 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |
| 4 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 5 | How I hated my elders for their frailty , for making me feel responsible for them . |
| 6 | She gave me that icy smile which is reserved for making me feel uncomfortable . |
| 7 | ABBERLEY : Promise me not to — I could kill you for making me ask you that . |
| 8 | Damn you , Kenneth Harris , thought Melissa , for making me doubt Barney all over again . |
| 9 | As the President said the C E C are asking you to support four one O , four one three er with the qualification I 'll give you later four one four and four one five and er just thank you Linda for making me write up all the notes about that resolution and pulling out at the last minute . |
| 10 | Thank you for making me look a fool ? |
| 11 | He blames Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell for making him sign the public immunity certificate . |
| 12 | The fact that the promisor has already received consideration for his promise before he makes it , so far from enabling him to break his promise seems to us to form an additional reason for making him keep it . |
| 13 | Thus , for example , while many inmates may sleep in worse conditions outside , this is no argument for making them sleep on concrete if it is not excessively expensive to provide them with cots or hammocks . |
| 14 | AWI treats both text and cartoon characters as actors , and has some very powerful tools for making them move . |
| 15 | They continued their gentle turn to the right as they cursed the tower controller for making them overshoot . |
| 16 | His solicitor Andrew Dismore criticised London Underground for making them fight to the end . |
| 17 | With × 7 or higher magnification it is possible to see the stars mixed in with it , and × 20 reveals the Trapezium — the celebrated multiple star Theta Orionis , which lies just on our side of the Nebula and is responsible for making it shine . |
| 18 | For this scene , Rob Bottin used the following : a false floor ; a three-section fibreglass model of his hand , able to be blown apart by compressed air , for safety ; a polyfoam right arm attached with velcro ; a full torso and head puppet , minus the right arm , but with an explosive charge , since it replaced Weller in shot , and with a mechanism for making it sit up . |
| 19 | I beg that those who are responsible for making it work will now take full advantage of the opportunities . |
| 20 | As he explains ( 1987 , pp. 19–20 ) the essential objective was to ‘ find out what was happening in my department and who was responsible for making it happen , who had set the targets , what the targets were and whether they were being monitored . |
| 21 | As we said when introducing an earlier case , managers have to learn to make sense of all kinds of technical documents , so we are not going to apologise for making you wade through a selection of press releases , offers and the like . |
| 22 | I do n't want to be blamed for making you miss your deadline , as well as for everything else . ’ |