Example sentences of "[vb infin] me for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 2 | THEY WILL INFLUENCE ME FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS . |
| 3 | They will influence me for the rest of my days . |
| 4 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 5 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 6 | You do n't need me for the moment , but I 'll be back this afternoon . |
| 7 | what went badly , and what beneficial feedback does that give me for the future ? |
| 8 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 9 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 10 | Hope you can join me for the breakfast show for Gary and Robbo 's next in your day . |
| 11 | ‘ To look at me , no one would take me for the Miracle-Worker , ’ Gabriel persisted , and he grinned and rubbed his short head of hair which had barely grown long enough for a single curl . |
| 12 | With any luck my father would n't call me for the milking too early ; he generally does n't when I 've been out on patrol the night before . |
| 13 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 14 | ‘ You may thank me for the breakfast , ’ McAllister said , sitting down to attack her own meal with vigour , ‘ but the weather — now that , alas , is beyond me . |
| 15 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 16 | As we sat discussing her script in the BBC canteen , her determined manner and the intensity of her gaze occasionally reminded me — though she wo n't thank me for the comparison — of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry , modom , do n't blame me for the shortages . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't blame me for the way you interpret anything I say , ’ he said blandly . |
| 19 | Now he 's gon na blame me for the loss of my book . |
| 20 | If it makes you feel better , you can even pay me for the drink . ’ |
| 21 | But first , how much will you pay me for the information ? ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , but they would n't pay me for the hour I was sitting there doing nothing you see |
| 23 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 24 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 25 | They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you . |
| 26 | They would ask me for the pass I did n't have , then they would want to know what I was doing there . |
| 27 | Why did n't you ask me for the potty ? |
| 28 | I do n't want him to say well she did n't come round , she did n't ask me for the money , I mean I have n't ask him for the money and , he 'd like to on a Friday , when one come up , when the next one comes you can you ? |
| 29 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 30 | ‘ This is something which will haunt me for the rest of my life . |