Example sentences of "[vb past] me for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 2 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 3 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 5 | They asked me for more money . |
| 6 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 7 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 8 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 9 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |
| 10 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 11 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 12 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 13 | Fingered me for those burglaries . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 16 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 17 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 18 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you left me for other women . ’ |