Example sentences of "[verb] me for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 3 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 4 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 5 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 6 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 9 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jesus wants me for a sunbeam , Uncle Philip wants me for a little flower . |
| 12 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 15 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Susan uses me for the first person pronoun [ G2 ] , and unmarked past tense [ G4 ] in tell , see , pick and run , and she has initial /t/ in ting , " thing " [ P17 ] . |
| 20 | Ho , master greybeard loon , ’ he was shouting to Kelly , ‘ come fill the cup , or stap me for a whey-faced knave . ’ |
| 21 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 24 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 25 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 26 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 27 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 28 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 29 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 30 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |