Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] me for " in BNC.
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| 31 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 32 | And er anyway he come and ask me for a dance he did he goes , I 'm not much of dancer we did that one you know , what they call it ? |
| 33 | Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile . |
| 34 | ‘ Thoo 's walked 'ome from chapel together every Sunday for a couple o' years and now , when 'e does t'decent thing and asks me for thi 'and , thoo 's refusing . ’ |
| 35 | My friends shook their heads , and chided me for not telling them a story with a happy ending . |
| 36 | I 've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it 's a woman doing the interviewing ; I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons . |
| 37 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 38 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 39 | She began to look into alternative methods of treatment — natural remedies , hypnotherapy , etc — and resented me for not participating and not having the right attitude . |
| 40 | ‘ Er — I was wondering if you could just come and help me for a moment ? ’ |
| 41 | and have me for lunch . |
| 42 | He paused again , as if the memory of that year had stopped him ; and to prepare me for a new facet of himself , a new shift . |
| 43 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 44 | Here to stay for at least for another year and to haunt me for the next fifteen . |
| 45 | ‘ And to blame me for her bitterness is the height of absurdity ! |
| 46 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |
| 47 | What the bloody hell did you go an' marry me for if you wanted to go to London ? |