Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 2 | ‘ You are asking me for money , ’ she said , shocked . |
| 3 | But I know only too well that you do not love me , that you are marrying me for Papa 's dollars , and that I can not bear . |
| 4 | ‘ What makes you think you 're taking me for granted ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 're asking me for secrets of the confessional . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 7 | Webb is that what you 're asking me for , some webbing ? |
| 8 | First , I like her best , I think , and second , you 're paying me for it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 10 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 11 | If she 's not polishing the auld bits and pieces , she 's naggin' me for new curtains ! ’ |
| 12 | She will think she is losing me for ever . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 15 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |
| 16 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 17 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 18 | They 're paying me for forty hours . |
| 19 | So it 's cost me , it 's cost me for ordering the bloody thing |
| 20 | But not when he 's taking me for granted . |
| 21 | I 'm in bondage to him to the tune of three hundred guineas which he 's squeezing me for , crushing me to death like a snake its prey . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There is a God , and He 's punishing me for our sin , punishing me through Denny . ’ |
| 23 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 24 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |