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 . |