Example sentences of "[prep] i for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 2 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 3 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 4 | Will you really stay with me for all time , be my wife ? ’ |
| 5 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 6 | She 's always pissed off with me for some reason ! |
| 7 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 8 | So tomorrow at two o'clock Miss Trunchbull will be taking over from me for one lesson . |
| 9 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 10 | Or in me for that matter ? |
| 11 | I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes , and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth . |
| 12 | I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day . |
| 13 | Indeed , leave all practical matters to me for all time . |
| 14 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 15 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 16 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 17 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 18 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 19 | He wrote it and handed it to me for this newsletter and I ran out of space . |
| 20 | a nonsense to me for this reason , that there is in society the payers of wages and the receivers of wages . |
| 21 | A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon . |
| 22 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |