Example sentences of "[vb past] for me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity then arose for me to be employed as a secretary to my husband — not an ideal working situation but it has been quite successful . |
| 2 | I also had two dollies , one made for me by our great family friend , Mrs Fawcett , the other stitched by my mother from an old piece of quilted petticoat . |
| 3 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 4 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 5 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 6 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 7 | Rock and roll , which arrived for me in 1958 , had completely severed the younger generation from its elders . |
| 8 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 9 | WHAT began for me as a culture shock 25 years ago , has now transmuted into an enduring sense of sorrow and frustration . |
| 10 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 11 | It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house . |
| 12 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 13 | ‘ He worked for me during university holidays . ’ |
| 14 | Tom had an amazing knack of being able to put all his candidates for the practical examination at their ease , it certainly worked for me in 1967 and was still working for our students in 1991 . |
| 15 | One afternoon , while the Fontanellatesi were having their siesta , Nora called for me on her bicycle . |
| 16 | The problem started for me at the end of a tough week when we played Leeds on the Sunday , then Everton in the Coca-Cola Cup on the Wednesday and Tottenham on Saturday . |
| 17 | THIS SEASON of violent contrasts started for me on TV-am where , as part of the Christmassy Victorianisation of After Nine , I sat on the sofa in bustle and bare bosom ( well , upper bosom anyway ) and suitably black-lace-becapped to be a Fin de Siecle ( nineteenth variety ) agony aunt . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Tunney , ’ he gasped — mistaking me for someone else ? as he reached for me with a flailing hand . |
| 19 | The only things the Tories did for me as a businessman was to empty a lot of factory space which made it easy to buy up . |
| 20 | And the kitchen and bathroom he did for me in Teddington and ! |