Example sentences of "[vb pp] me for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 3 | That he 's owed me for a year ! |
| 4 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 7 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 8 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |