Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 2 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 3 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 4 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 5 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've told Myra you 've mistaken me for Dana and that you 're making me go with you to look for Garry , but she 's inclined to discount that — she 's building a romance round us . ’ |
| 7 | You 've known me for yonks . ’ |
| 8 | I pushed the bloody bitch into it after she had cursed me for not handing over every penny in my pockets ! |
| 9 | From her encouraging smile I realised she had suggested me for something . |
| 10 | She had thanked me for ‘ the deep and exhaustive treatment ’ , and added characteristically : ‘ I can not help being pleased — grateful though I should be and am to her in a way — for Pamela Handford [ sic ] Johnson 's errors to be pointed out . |
| 11 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 12 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
| 13 | ‘ You have paid me for the ring , a little , ’ he said aloud , and got off the bed , leaving her in disorder . |
| 14 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 16 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've asked me for ten days , ’ Blanche said . |
| 18 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 19 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 20 | Can anyone tell me where ‘ balmpot ’ did originate as it has puzzled me for some 60 years ? |
| 21 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 22 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 23 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 24 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 25 | Well I do know what I want to do , but it 's knocked me for six cos I sort of felt really guilty |
| 26 | That he 's owed me for a year ! |
| 27 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 28 | I I I honestly , look what he 's drawn me for rag . |
| 29 | ‘ He thinks the ministry is an affectation and a waste of time , and on the other hand he thinks priests should be very good , and he does n't think I am because he 's known me for so long , so he 's annoyed with me . |
| 30 | He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’ |