Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 3 | ‘ I think that 's the kindest thing that 's been said to me for ages , Ben dear . |
| 4 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 5 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 6 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 7 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 8 | Other jobs and dignities , including the leadership of the House , the chairmanship of the party , the conduct of Central African affairs , the oversight of European negotiations , the first Secretaryship of State , and even the Deputy Premiership , were to be added unto me for varying periods in the years that followed ; and each time Macmillan went abroad-notably during his Eastern tour in 1958 and his African trip in 1960-I was automatically invited to act as head of the government . |
| 9 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 10 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 11 | I ought to have guessed , she had been purring over me for days , giving me arch looks . |
| 12 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'm sure that after being monopolised by me for so long you 'll be anxious to return to your boyfriend . ’ |
| 14 | It 's been screaming at me for days , but I just could n't see it . |
| 15 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 16 | I well remember a little cardigan from a High Street store that was given to me for my ( then ) six-month-old baby . |
| 17 | I felt he was vying with me for proprietary rights over Jean-Claude . |
| 18 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 19 | Attracted by my outcry , the thing was flopping towards me for a closer look . |
| 20 | I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute . |