Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 2 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 3 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 4 | ‘ Can you blame me for holding the very opinion which you deliberately instigated ? |
| 5 | If Mephistco really is determined to punish me for defying the Review Board , they have far more efficient methods at their disposal than sending some freelance vagabond who still has boneyard dust behind her ears to do their dirty work . |
| 6 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |
| 7 | So it 's cost me , it 's cost me for ordering the bloody thing |
| 8 | You do n't 'old it against me for pinchin' the wallet , do you ? ’ |
| 9 | Obviously blames me for sticking a needle into him , and I expect he always will . ’ |
| 10 | They criticise me for getting a new curtain or taking a holiday . |
| 11 | ‘ I expect it is , but it 's the truth , and you 're the last person to condemn me for telling the truth , even though it may offend you to hear it . ’ |
| 12 | If Modernists criticise me for copying the old , I tell them it takes a lifetime to do it well . |
| 13 | He scolds me for leaving the flat . |
| 14 | And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll forgive me for making the point , ’ said Calatin , ‘ but you do get the odd rebel , even these days . |
| 16 | ‘ Then you can not criticise me for making the best of my situation . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
| 18 | The Arab said , ‘ They blame me for guarding the food . |
| 19 | Mr Muawad , a pro-Syrian Maronite Christian , met deputies in the village of Ehden in the Syrian-controlled north to consult them about forming a cabinet , due to be announced this week . |
| 20 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 21 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | The first of them is the group thank you to all of them for assisting the panel sometimes working on the computing . |
| 27 | You can forgive them anything from this perspective ; you can almost forgive them for changing the clocks . |
| 28 | And they have had many letters too — thanking them for giving the people of Tawau an electricity supply that is the envy of the rest of Eastern Malaysia . |
| 29 | It was melancholy to see in the civil prisons of the metropolis , remarked Grant , men whose birth , education , manners and appearance would have fitted them for occupying the highest positions in society and consequently of proving benefactors to their species , spending no inconsiderable portion of the prime of life amid scenes of deepest degradation . |
| 30 | The tabloids turned on them for selling the idea of drugs to schoolchildren and having too much sex . |