Example sentences of "[verb] me for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 10 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 11 | On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled . |
| 12 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 13 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 14 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 15 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 16 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 17 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 18 | Then I felt a pressure on my arm and a soft female voice asked me for a light . |
| 19 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 21 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 22 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 23 | When I did , something about its stillness stilled me for a moment . |
| 24 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 25 | A temporary assistant lecturer 's post was available in my Department at U.C.L. Apparently , my Head of Department , , was happy to appoint me , but before the decision was made , he offered his new professorial colleague , , an opportunity to interview me for the job . |
| 26 | THEY WILL INFLUENCE ME FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS . |
| 27 | They will influence me for the rest of my days . |
| 28 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 29 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 30 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |