Example sentences of "[to-vb] me for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 2 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 3 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
| 4 | So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons . |
| 5 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 6 | ‘ Would you be so kind as to excuse me for a moment ? |
| 7 | It was through a family connection , I think — anyway , as expected , she never had to ask me for a reference . |
| 8 | The Conservative government has deprived North Tyneside of £300m in grant money since 1980 , What a cheek now to ask me for a donation . |
| 9 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 10 | I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone . |
| 11 | ‘ Care to join me for a snifter , old boy ? ’ he said , buttoning on his chamois leather glove with the hole in the thumb . |
| 12 | He paused again , as if the memory of that year had stopped him ; and to prepare me for a new facet of himself , a new shift . |