Example sentences of "[pron] for [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously blames me for sticking a needle into him , and I expect he always will . ’ |
| 2 | They criticise me for getting a new curtain or taking a holiday . |
| 3 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 4 | Existing contractual arrangements are inadequate as a means both of attracting sufficient high calibre practitioners to work in London and of rewarding them for providing an appropriate range of services . |
| 5 | Erm could could I suggest that the committee might like er to ask me to right to the W I to thank them for getting a new piano ? |
| 6 | Fundamentalists execrate someone for writing a book that they have n't read , and a famous novelist has to go into hiding for fear of his life . |
| 7 | This is probably a good omen , as our fourth stop was to sup a pint each at The Blind Beggar , the infamous public house where Reggie Kray shot someone for making a homophobic comment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Atherton batted beautifully for 42 but then left kicking himself for slamming a wide ball from Reiffel straight to cover off the back foot . |
| 10 | Teversham was unnerved by the nearness of the following Land Rover and irritated with himself for missing an elementary point . |
| 11 | Friends of Fonda 's father said Peter should be ashamed of himself for linking a ‘ great name in movies ’ to such disgraceful junk . |
| 12 | He hated himself for pressing a dying friend , but some gut-fear , some primordial terror drove him on . |
| 13 | Oisin said , very courteously , ‘ Since our own Chroniclers and our Poets and Story Tellers were unable to follow us into exile , it is we who should be grateful to you for creating an account of what is happening . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I only wanted to thank you for organizing a unique experience for me . ’ |
| 15 | That more likely is that you realised well nigh immediately that it was Mr , that 's why you said to Mr I 'm arresting you for harbouring an escapee . |
| 16 | Thank you for ordering a copy of the above tape . |
| 17 | Do n't blame you for earning a bit . |
| 18 | Thank you for bringing a little bit of light in . |
| 19 | Thank you for sending a copy of the above planning application . |
| 20 | Thank you for sending a copy of the above planning application . |
| 21 | Thank you for sending a copy of the above planning application to Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
| 22 | Thank you for doing a talk I did not feel up to . |
| 23 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 24 | ‘ He was furious with you for making a special lunch . |
| 25 | I once had a thank you for rescuing a woman who had a baby in Woodstock . |
| 26 | Shame on you for hitting a woman . |
| 27 | I have never been one for spending a fortune on equipment , so a dream tank was not something that had ever really passed through my mind . |
| 28 | Previous convictions : one for possessing a controlled drug , fined . |
| 29 | Her sphere is not just a physical one for lighting a fire and tending the name have emotional and spiritual connotations , too . |
| 30 | I 'm a great one for putting a bit of cerulean blue in my green areas , but other painters add other colours , like red . |