Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 2 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 3 | The role which I adopted for studying the process was that of non-participant observer . |
| 4 | It is more than I bargain for to recall the names of my own … family . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 7 | Any gene I had for making a sacrifice , on behalf of a a sibling , are one hundred percent in my own body . |
| 8 | I had for winning a free place at ten , |
| 9 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 10 | The woman made a pile of cracked Minton tea plates in the wire in-tray that she used for stacking the washing-up . |
| 11 | What alternative ways can you suggest for introducing the concept of time ? |
| 12 | Not trusting herself to speak , she settled for gripping the butt of her gun with white knuckles . |
| 13 | The room was exactly as she 'd left it — shoes in the middle of the floor , the overall she wore for doing the bedrooms thrown over the back of the chair . |
| 14 | The reasons she advances for maintaining the book 's integrity are based on modesty of intention : it is better not to divulge the precise methods of punishment used by its Mrs Teachum , since the book is addressed less to teachers than to pupils . |
| 15 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 16 | If you show that you are a master of the relevant knowledge , the examiner will readily give you credit for knowing the rest of the subject , An example would be the question : ‘ The jury is a historical anachronism . ’ |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Things were looking very bad because the lowest estimate we received for putting the club right after the fire was £180,000 . |
| 18 | We would also be grateful for any feed-back on the educational materials we produce for supporting the curriculum , either through our volunteer or direct to Head Office . |
| 19 | The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ? |
| 20 | Whatever actual technique we use for taking the sample the key thing is that everyone should be ‘ on the list ’ in the first place . |
| 21 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 22 | We take for granted the principles that have been argued in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 23 | From a scientific rather than a psychiatric standpoint , the most interesting aspect of these bizarre tastes is the opportunity they afford for witnessing the extreme chemical insults which the body can accept and overcome . |
| 24 | What alternatives do they have for reducing the demands ? |
| 25 | Eventually , after some awkward silences in the kitchen while they grimly drank endless cups of coffee , they settled for organising the party . |
| 26 | They took for granted the historical events of Jesus : his birth , life , death and resurrection . |
| 27 | The incidence of syphilis itself , though a real problem , was actually declining from the 1860s while the Acts were manifestly unfair , for they took for granted the double standard and consequently sought to control working-class women while ignoring the major source for the spreading of the disease , the men . |
| 28 | And later , when they had mentioned the unicorn to the Friar his eyes had become angry and he had demanded to know what reason they had for believing the unicorn was in the forest and had not been calmed until they explained . |
| 29 | The justification for the reversal of the burden of proof in unfair dismissal cases is that employers will be in the best position to explain what reasons they had for terminating the employment . |
| 30 | In the early Eighties , she organized a venture which above all else satisfied her craving for rescuing the past with no obvious monetary benefit . |