Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] for that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you condemning me for that ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 3 | Sorry if you take catty as the para now , then D P are n't actually , the reason D P sent the paper questionnaire is to just double check that all the columns and everything are laid out in the correct way are n't they and then checking it for that reason , whereas they are actually doing it on something like Kathy themselves so they , there is n't the same approval going on . |
| 4 | Yeah what was it costing us for that weekend ? |
| 5 | Are you paying me for that ? ’ |
| 6 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 7 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 8 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 9 | I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back . |
| 10 | that 's still not it as much as er Robert Maxwell lost and seem , ca , see the Labour party nailing him for that , no you do n't because he was a head of a Labour party paper |
| 11 | Thank you for taking me for that delectable breath of fresh air — it 's something I 'll always remember . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think we 're criticising you for that , ’ put in David . |
| 13 | As a result , car-based development policies have tended to reduce the freedom of choice and quality of life of this still numerically significant section of the population , while dramatically increasing them for that section with regular access to a car . |
| 14 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 15 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought 14 years was a fair spell but I felt a bit sad and it will be hard to let go but I am preparing myself for that . |
| 17 | Hating himself for that snobbery , he drove the boy harder , refusing to admit to himself that he was failing . |
| 18 | In spite of herself she watched his departing back , hating him for that supple arrogance in his walk , the way that simply by walking away from her he could fill her with an inexplicable , infuriating urge to run after him … |