Example sentences of "[vb past] me for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 2 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 3 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 4 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 5 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 6 | Then I felt a pressure on my arm and a soft female voice asked me for a light . |
| 7 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 9 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 10 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 11 | When I did , something about its stillness stilled me for a moment . |
| 12 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 13 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 14 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 15 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 16 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 17 | And he told me , he told me , I 've got it written on the back of me hand I thought it was brilliant that , I thought little do you know what I 'm gon na use that for he never phoned me for a , he 's not phoned me for |
| 18 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 19 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 20 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 21 | My father 's passion for Tracey Childs prepared me for a life of drama |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 24 | ‘ Outlandos D'Amour ’ , the inversions that Andy was using , that really excited me for a period . |
| 25 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 26 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 27 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 28 | That threw me for a minute . |
| 29 | I had to admit to myself that that threw me for the minute . |
| 30 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |