Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 2 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 3 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 4 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 5 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 6 | Waterlife Research Industries have kindly replaced the test kit , even though they were not at fault and I would like to thank them for this . |
| 7 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 8 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 9 | BSDI 's motion to dismiss , which makes significant use of the Xerox/Apple precedent , claims USL 's failure to sue them for any patent , trade secret or copyright infringement , or even allege such a violation , taints their case . |
| 10 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 11 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 12 | As well for garden planting for show or cutting , thy make stately pot-grown plants , but only for one year as they are unable to find enough plant nutrients to sustain them for another year . |
| 13 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 14 | The expression " breach of warranty " is often used in disputes about deferred consideration , when vendors are said in the agreement to " warrant " that the profits reach a specified figure , and the purchasers seek a repayment from the vendors to compensate them for that loss , in most cases calculated on a pre-agreed formula : if the profits exceed the specified figure , the vendors may be entitled to additional consideration . |
| 15 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 16 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 17 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 18 | ‘ I have wanted to meet you for such a long time , ’ she began hesitantly . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Not even a bona fide payment in thanks for your co-operation and to compensate you for any upheaval ? ’ |
| 21 | You can do that … no need to train you for that . ’ |
| 22 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 23 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 24 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 25 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 26 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 27 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 28 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 29 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 30 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |