Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] me for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 2 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 's going to leave me for you ? |
| 4 | I was n't there at the time and I 'm damned if they 're going to top me for your brothers . |
| 5 | " You 're probably going to hate me for this . " |
| 6 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 7 | He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance . |
| 8 | Now , where did you say you were going to take me for that drink ? ’ |
| 9 | She was going to ask me for money , I thought . |
| 10 | They 're not getting anything out of me , they 're having to pay me for my body . ’ |
| 11 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 12 | Exactly , they 're trying to screw me for every single penny they can get out of me |
| 13 | The brick was wrapped in two notes , the first apologised for the mess and the second , bearing Trevor Proby 's signature , offered to lend me the £250 the club are still trying to stitch me for after that car boot sale fiasco . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's trying to take me for everything I 've got , my friend , ‘ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 16 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |