Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not like me for it but I will have to drive you hard if you are to learn all you will need to survive what you will face . |
| 2 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 3 | If someone has an accident in a Caterham , they might not sue me for $10m because I do n't have that much . |
| 4 | And now he 'll not forgive me for a twelvemonth . |
| 5 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |
| 6 | He 'd just hit me for two huge sixes , then slapped me savagely through the covers . |
| 7 | You 'd probably charge me for it as well would n't you ? |
| 8 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 9 | Julie could n't forgive me for that . |
| 10 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 11 | There was a loud noise and my leg would not support me for several weeks . |
| 12 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 13 | At Lima bus station an unemployed mining engineer , who would later sting me for a few thousand intis , told me , ‘ This country , something really wrong with it . |
| 14 | I ate an energy-giving meal — bakes beans and jacket potato — a combination the midwife would later curse me for . |
| 15 | I had very short hair , always wore jeans , sneakers and an anorak ( being perpetually cold ) , and strangers would often mistake me for a boy — my younger sisters ' younger brother . |
| 16 | Yeah , but they would n't pay me for the hour I was sitting there doing nothing you see |
| 17 | ‘ I have such confidence in Edgar 's love that I think I could kill him , and he would n't blame me for it . |
| 18 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 19 | With any luck my father would n't call me for the milking too early ; he generally does n't when I 've been out on patrol the night before . |
| 20 | You ca n't blame me for trying . ’ |
| 21 | dir : You ca n't blame me for your failure to secure funding . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm delighted to hear it , ’ Mike agreed , ‘ although after this latest little fracas you ca n't blame me for wondering , now can you ? ’ |
| 23 | But you have to admit you do look very young and innocent , so you ca n't blame me for putting on the Big Daddy bit . ’ |
| 24 | Ca n't blame me for that ! |
| 25 | You ca n't blame me for that . |
| 26 | She ca n't forgive me for leaving and I 've had to accept that our relationship 's finally over . |
| 27 | It 's happened and you ca n't condemn me for it . |
| 28 | I call him that so I can shout down the street after him and those bastards in the Race Relations office ca n't touch me for it . ’ |
| 29 | You do n't have to like my politics , but you ca n't arrest me for them ; not yet . ’ |
| 30 | My wife is a very undemanding woman , Robert , she would never ask me for anything . ’ |