Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 2 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 3 | I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behaviour , and I knew that he respected me for it . |
| 4 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 6 | OK , so he paid me for my taxi . |
| 7 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 8 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 9 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
| 11 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 12 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 13 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 14 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 15 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 16 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 17 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 18 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | all I thought like I was passing a bit of gossip , but he paid me for it |
| 21 | How I thought he could help me I do n't know , but he invited me for lunch , anyway , and he was lovely . |
| 22 | Did you imagine I 'd stand passively by while you used me for bayonet practice ? ’ |
| 23 | I was accustomed to a lonely bed long before she left me for someone else . ’ |
| 24 | ABBERLEY : When I left her — No , say , say , to put it another way , why not be kind , second husband , after all , when she left me for you , when she quit , she left in perfect repair . |
| 25 | ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone . |
| 26 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 27 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 28 | I can not recall an occasion when he asked me for help before . |