Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
| 3 | The bastard tried to pay me for it , the only way he could get excited was by the thought of buying me . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 6 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 7 | A twenty four year old woman came to see me for treatment on the ward , a smoker . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 9 | So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons . |
| 10 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 11 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 12 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 13 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 14 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 15 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 16 | But in the end the Turkish captain decided to keep me for himself , and took me home with him . |
| 17 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 18 | I was proud of my achievement — I had managed something that my mistress had not — I was pregnant with Abraham 's heir , and Sarah started to hate me for it . |
| 19 | They wanted my bag and they grabbed it , but then they started to beat me for no reason except sheer wickedness . |
| 20 | She kept examining me for bullet wounds , I think . |
| 21 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 22 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 23 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 24 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 25 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 26 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 27 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
| 28 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
| 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 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |