Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] i for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 2 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 3 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 4 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 5 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 6 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 7 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 8 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 9 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 10 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 11 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 12 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 13 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 14 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 15 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 16 | It 's so incongruous it stuns me for a few seconds . |
| 17 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 18 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 19 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |