Example sentences of "[verb] me for the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 8 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 9 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | THEY WILL INFLUENCE ME FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS . |
| 12 | They will influence me for the rest of my days . |
| 13 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 14 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 15 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 16 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 17 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 18 | You do n't need me for the moment , but I 'll be back this afternoon . |
| 19 | He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 21 | ‘ God forgive me for the thoughts I just thought . ’ |
| 22 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 23 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |
| 24 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 25 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 26 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 27 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 28 | It covers me for the preparation work to an industrial tribunal . |
| 29 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 30 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |