Example sentences of "[verb] me for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 2 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 4 | They asked me for more money . |
| 5 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 6 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 7 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 8 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 9 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 12 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 13 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 14 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 15 | You owe me for this candy , the mother . |
| 16 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |
| 17 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 18 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 19 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 20 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 21 | to last me for one month , because we 've got to put it on . |
| 22 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 23 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 24 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , I was hoping you 'd join me for that drink . ’ |
| 26 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 27 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |