Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] me for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 2 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 3 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 4 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 5 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 6 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
| 7 | One bird had frustrated me for most of the trip . |
| 8 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 9 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |