Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 2 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 3 | He might be my best friend but he will treat me the same as any other player and will only pick me for a Test if I am bowling well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I did n't think they were gon na fucking hit me for a fiver as well . |
| 6 | Not just taking me for a ride ? ’ |
| 7 | Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything . |
| 8 | And now he 'll not forgive me for a twelvemonth . |
| 9 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 10 | Then , of course , they 'd make me a mother figure getting up asking me for a glass of water in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | At Lima bus station an unemployed mining engineer , who would later sting me for a few thousand intis , told me , ‘ This country , something really wrong with it . |
| 12 | ‘ Outlandos D'Amour ’ , the inversions that Andy was using , that really excited me for a period . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you really take me for a fool ? ’ |
| 14 | I had very short hair , always wore jeans , sneakers and an anorak ( being perpetually cold ) , and strangers would often mistake me for a boy — my younger sisters ' younger brother . |
| 15 | The Conservative government has deprived North Tyneside of £300m in grant money since 1980 , What a cheek now to ask me for a donation . |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 17 | You do n't fool me for a second . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Oh well , I suppose it wo n't hurt me for a couple of days . |
| 19 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 20 | Dressing to Please They wo n't miss me for a morning . |
| 21 | ‘ Will you kindly excuse me for a moment ? |
| 22 | Do n't mistake me for a patriot , but I want to take issue with Hardware director Richard Stanley 's remarks about the US ( FACE 24 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , come on , do n't play me for a fool ! |
| 24 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 25 | And he told me , he told me , I 've got it written on the back of me hand I thought it was brilliant that , I thought little do you know what I 'm gon na use that for he never phoned me for a , he 's not phoned me for |
| 26 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |