Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look … what the hell do you want me here for , Cardiff ? |
| 2 | So you 've got me here , very clever , but for God 's sake what do you want me here for ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 4 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 5 | ‘ The archbishop can not compensate me enough for slavery in Salzburg … |
| 6 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 7 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 8 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 9 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 10 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 11 | You just want me here for this . ’ |
| 12 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 13 | At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea . |
| 14 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 15 | What you 've got to do now is make them into salesmen , forgive me again for using the phrase salesmen , I appreciate that all of you are not men . |
| 16 | I thought she but I 'm trying to think what she phoned me up for . |
| 17 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 18 | These are the pictures which interest me most for their complex attitude to the feminine . |
| 19 | Suppose I tell them that you want to escort me tonight for personal reasons ? ’ |
| 20 | He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend . |
| 21 | ‘ Let's get out of here before MacLane shows and tries to pull me in for this . ’ |
| 22 | In two seconds you 'd be wanting me back for something . " |
| 23 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 24 | He was n't very pleased with me , and told me off for not saying where I 'd moved to . |
| 25 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 26 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 27 | She told me off for doing the wrong colour there . |
| 28 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 29 | I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway . |
| 30 | They messed me around for days . |