Example sentences of "[vb pp] for me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 2 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 3 | The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening . |
| 4 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I bought the waterfalls off Lloyd Cole before he moved to America , and the rainbow was specially designed for me by a team of clever scientists . |
| 6 | By now the time had come for me to hand back to these women responsibility to go it alone . |
| 7 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 8 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 9 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 10 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 11 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
| 12 | The weapons are made for me on Clabidacia V , the home world of spidery exters with delicate filaments instead of limbs who are among the finest micro-engineers in the SenFed . |
| 13 | Amplification wise , I use two Ampeg SVTs that were made for me in 1987 as part of the company 's ‘ Artist ’ series , and there were only five hundred of those made . |
| 14 | ‘ This course is made for me from tee to green but I 've got a lot to learn on the greens , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 16 | And I used to swallow up all those stories in the women 's magazines , which were very kindly saved for me by two ladies down the dale . |
| 17 | He was prepared for me to Cook The Books |
| 18 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 19 | ‘ My duffle coat was bought for me in Manchester . |
| 20 | In my own family in India , often enough saris are bought for me by my father or mother . |
| 21 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 22 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 23 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 24 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 25 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 26 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 27 | Nearing the end of my pregnancy , I had a dream , reminding me of all the good times Sarah and I had shared — the love that bonded us , and the way she had cared for me during my life in Canaan . |
| 28 | But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week . |
| 29 | Charles Hill , who had spoken for me at Chatham Town Hall during the election , came up to me . |
| 30 | Another introduction to politics was provided for me in the person of Randolph Churchill . |