Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] i for " in BNC.

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1 He tried to kill me for no apparent reason .
2 Still he want to feed me for ever .
3 My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day .
4 The bastard tried to pay me for it , the only way he could get excited was by the thought of buying me .
5 ‘ What I do n't understand is why you appear to blame me for something someone else thought and said . ’
6 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 .
7 Nobody came to see me for three days .
8 A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker .
9 ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington .
10 So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons .
11 Do you know what Shrimpy 's decided to buy me for my birthday ?
12 She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’
13 As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’
16 ‘ He 's going to leave me for you ?
17 I was n't there at the time and I 'm damned if they 're going to top me for your brothers .
18 " You 're probably going to hate me for this . "
19 Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home .
20 Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again .
21 He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance .
22 Now , where did you say you were going to take me for that drink ? ’
23 She was going to ask me for money , I thought .
24 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 .
25 The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years .
26 But in the end the Turkish captain decided to keep me for himself , and took me home with him .
27 You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about .
28 I was proud of my achievement — I had managed something that my mistress had not — I was pregnant with Abraham 's heir , and Sarah started to hate me for it .
29 They wanted my bag and they grabbed it , but then they started to beat me for no reason except sheer wickedness .
30 Meanwhile , the BBC photographer had arrived to photograph me for the Radio Times .
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