Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 2 | Later that evening I joined them for dinner , sharing a few tins of Compo and three bottles of French cider . |
| 3 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 4 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm too full of relief that you are n't the mercenary bitch I took you for . ’ |
| 6 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 7 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 8 | In a way I blamed her for it , and to start with I think I hated her . |
| 9 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 10 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 11 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |