Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the sake " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 2 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |
| 4 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 5 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 6 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 7 | It may be that he was one of the many unlearned priests forced to absent themselves for the sake of their own education , but his going to Chester seems to suggest rather that he was both able and ambitious in the new province . |
| 8 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 9 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 10 | They clamp their jaws on it and hang on , martyring themselves for the sake of the colony . |
| 11 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 12 | If a person wishes to give up his physical integrity in certain circumstances , or to risk it for the sake of sport or excitement , should the criminal law allow the consent to negative what would otherwise be a crime ? |
| 13 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 14 | And were the Brodskys simply slumming it for the sake of a little pop action ? |
| 15 | But do n't worry , precious as Moorlake is to me , it would be taking things too far to marry you for the sake of making it whole again . " |
| 16 | Now I 'm , I 'm gon na play you for the sake of the game . |
| 17 | ‘ If the right player becomes available , we wo n't lose him for the sake of an extra penny . ’ |
| 18 | his school sports and said I did it for the sake of the children ! |
| 19 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 20 | Well we should accept them for the sake of our own spiritual growth for one thing . |
| 21 | Tough shit really , but I soften it for the sake of the delicacies of future interaction . |