Example sentences of "[verb] to i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is anyone in your parish whom you think might be interested and suitable , perhaps you would draw their attention to these posts and encourage them to write to me for application forms and job description . |
| 2 | Incidentally , although it 's impractical for people to call Ampeg , I have a box number for anyone who might want to write to me for advice . |
| 3 | I mean er I 'll I 'll still need them to come to me for er entering |
| 4 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 5 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |
| 6 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 7 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 8 | A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon . |
| 9 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 10 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 11 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 12 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 13 | ‘ He did n't speak to me for months . |
| 14 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 15 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 16 | Listen to me for a moment . ’ |
| 17 | " Senga , listen to me for a moment . |
| 18 | ‘ Madam , listen to me for a moment . |
| 19 | Now calm down , and listen to me for a minute . |
| 20 | ‘ No , Nicolo , you listen to me for a change . |
| 21 | It 's only lent to me for a week |
| 22 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 23 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
| 24 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 25 | Although I was still young , important people came to me for advice . |
| 26 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 27 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 28 | Several older women , desperate about this situation came to me for contraceptives ( which I did n't have ) . |
| 29 | Let's just tell you what you look like , you came to me for a job you would n't get it . |
| 30 | speak to me for er , for a day afterwards , at least one day , and just said |