Example sentences of "[v-ing] i for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 3 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 4 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 5 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |
| 6 | Last week , I received a touching postcard from a recently divorced friend in Bonn thanking me for a letter . |
| 7 | At least that way I would n't have got a note thanking me for a ‘ wonderful evening ’ that never happened . ’ |
| 8 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 9 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 10 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 11 | As you will be expecting me for a visit on your return tomorrow I am writing to let you know I shall not be attending your sessions again . |
| 12 | Do n't you think you can manage to stop needling me for a few hours ? ’ |
| 13 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 14 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 15 | Then , of course , they 'd make me a mother figure getting up asking me for a glass of water in the middle of the night . |
| 16 | He sounded depressed by the thought , but then cheered himself up by asking me for a beer . |
| 17 | I know I 'm not a wallflower — other boys keep asking me for a date — but Harry just does n't seem to notice me . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 19 | Must have been the early 1940s , my mother taking me for a walk near Bostall Woods during a gap in the bombing . |
| 20 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 21 | Not just taking me for a ride ? ’ |
| 22 | Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything . |
| 23 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 25 | After after that after he this deputy had clouted me and I clouted back at him , and they put me er suspe suspending me for a for weeks you see the mana er the manager , I says , I 'm not I 'm not stopping . |
| 26 | telling me for a fact Steven wo n't touch me ? |
| 27 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 28 | ‘ What is there to stop your visiting me for a week ? |
| 29 | Hitting me for a fiver commission as well . |
| 30 | At once she burst into tears and hugging me for the first time in years ( it seemed ) , cried , ‘ If only I had their faith ! ’ |