Example sentences of "[vb past] i for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 2 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 3 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 4 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 5 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 6 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 7 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 8 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 9 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 10 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 11 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 12 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 13 | I had to admit to myself that that threw me for the minute . |
| 14 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 15 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 16 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 17 | She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’ |
| 18 | He paid one of them £300 ‘ who , because I employed another to fit up my last room , out of pique arrested me for the balance . ’ |
| 19 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 20 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 21 | He watched me for the effect of this slang . |
| 22 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 23 | He saw me for the first time . |
| 24 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 25 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 26 | They wanted me for the part because it seemed they wanted someone younger . |
| 27 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 28 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 29 | I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor . |