Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARK MOULAND last night paid tribute to Welsh team-mate Ian Woosnam for helping to rescue him from the golfing scrap heap . |
| 2 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 3 | I accept the judgement of my fellow officers and , before I die , beg their forgiveness for having shamed them before the T'ang . ’ |
| 4 | Really she was just working out her guilt for having thrown me under the wardrobe when I was six weeks old . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's worse for them because they blame themselves for having provided me with the financial means to take a plebeian job . ’ |
| 6 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 7 | Northampton captain Lamb was yesterday banned for two matches by his club and fined heavily — not for his comments , but for failing to clear them with the county . |
| 8 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 9 | He apologised for trying to blame them over the Tories ' economic blunders . |