Example sentences of "[verb] me for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Kate , you 've got an awful lot to forgive me for , have n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’ |
| 7 | I know that you 've never forgiven me for what happened , and I do n't blame you , darling . |
| 8 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 9 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 10 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
| 11 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 12 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 13 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 14 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 17 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 18 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 19 | ‘ The referee took me aside and penalised me for ‘ over-robust ’ play , not foul play . ’ |
| 20 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 21 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 22 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 23 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 24 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 25 | What do you want me for ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What , in the name of the Old Snake , do they want me for ? ’ |
| 27 | They did n't want me for pastoral and I 'm not head of department . |
| 28 | ‘ What do you want me for ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Did you want me for something in particular ? ’ |