Example sentences of "[verb] i for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 3 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 4 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 5 | Jesus wants me for a sunbeam , Uncle Philip wants me for a little flower . |
| 6 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 7 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 8 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 9 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 10 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 11 | I had each Wednesday afternoon off from Russell 's and he enroled me , secretly , into his school for lessons with his normal classes , He and his wife held a weekly open house and these cramming sessions prepared me for the coming Halton entrance examination . |
| 12 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 13 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 14 | But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted . |
| 15 | Contact me for a free Walk Pack which includes details of your nearest walk , the walk T-shirt and of course a sponsor form . |
| 16 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 21 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 22 | Five years ago , you nominated me for the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 25 | Exactly , they 're trying to screw me for every single penny they can get out of me |
| 26 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 27 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 28 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 29 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 30 | 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 . |