Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I think Simon blamed her for this . ’ |
| 3 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
| 4 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 5 | She had not been far behind him , and yet had heard no sound to prepare her for this . |
| 6 | Another part of Phoebe hated herself for this cynical internal grin , because these were her friends and she was indubitably one of them , and could not imagine being otherwise . |
| 7 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 8 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 9 | And he 's given us certain gifts to enable us for this to happen in our lives . |
| 10 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 11 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 12 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 13 | Two reasons strike me for this . |
| 14 | A FATHER who has every justification for being very proud of his daughter nominates her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 15 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 16 | Just recently I was talking to a man who had crossed the world to see someone for this very reason . |
| 17 | Yeah Erm when , you know when they send the free butter , previously they sent butter cheap butter to the big supermarkets , so the distributor charged something for this . |
| 18 | The deference of his courtiers did nothing for this — that was a piece from a different jigsaw puzzle he had already solved . |
| 19 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 20 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 21 | His coach Ron Roddan says that , at 32 , he has never been fitter , that the disappointment of the World Championships last year , in which he ran his guts out and finished fourth , provided the final necessary impetus to give everything for this final race . |