Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] you for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 2 | ‘ Rachel Santerre , ’ he intoned , ‘ I arrest you for treason and the most horrible homicides . |
| 3 | I know you for dinner . |
| 4 | Erm , the first one is a letter from Ron , he , he 's in Milton Keynes with his family at the moment , on holiday , and he will be missing this meeting action tomorrow and unfortunately the September Executive , erm , he 's reported on the erm market stall which I 'll come to a bit later , I ask you for details about that and for the enclose with it erm , a statement issued by the association nationally on pensioner 's and the Poll Tax . |
| 5 | Francis will you come off the floor and go in the sitting room until I shout you for tea . |
| 6 | Like Strabo 's gladioli and lilies and roses , I keep you for sweetness ’ sake only . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I took you for Adam , for he 's gone down Mountsorrel to fetch in some supplies . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 9 | ‘ The one I gave you for Christmas ? ’ |
| 10 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 11 | I resent you for engineering it and I resent you for what you think you can do to me in revenge for our affair last year . ’ |
| 12 | I need you for protection ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Was she asking you for money ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If she asks you for money and shows you the letters , you can say that you did n't write them . ’ |
| 15 | No I 've finished , thank you thank you for listening . |
| 16 | However , if you write to us on your return we compensate you for outbound delays as follows : |
| 17 | That 's the cardigan we bought you for Christmas |
| 18 | Heavenly father we thank you for mummy 's birthday . |
| 19 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |
| 20 | So we thank you for food , for clothing , for our homes , and for the government that you have set over the world . |
| 21 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 22 | Again , like teachers , there are one or two honest coppers , but in general they nick you for things you have not done or give you a sound slapping to make you remember them . |
| 23 | They ask you for work |
| 24 | Then you have to go and have a bath and see the nurse , and she checks your hair and they check you for VD . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew Charles wanted me to marry you for reasons we hardly need discuss . |
| 26 | He asked you for life , and you gave it to him — |
| 27 | I expect he asked you for money . |
| 28 | ‘ But he has you for company , ’ began Ruth . |
| 29 | ‘ He wants you for Gareth , I think . ’ |
| 30 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |