Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] me for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 2 | I figured me for a piece of the five G's . ’ |
| 3 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 4 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 6 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 7 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 8 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 9 | She thanked me for the information — and then she left . ’ |
| 10 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 11 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 12 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 13 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 14 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 15 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 16 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 17 | They wanted me for the part because it seemed they wanted someone younger . |
| 18 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 19 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 20 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 21 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 22 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 23 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 24 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 25 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 26 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 27 | By chance he landed me for a swim at Moutsa down there . |
| 28 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 29 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 30 | He watched me for the effect of this slang . |