Example sentences of "to i for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , leave all practical matters to me for all time . |
| 3 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 4 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 5 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 6 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 7 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 8 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 9 | But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still . |
| 10 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 11 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 12 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 13 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 14 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | He wrote it and handed it to me for this newsletter and I ran out of space . |
| 17 | a nonsense to me for this reason , that there is in society the payers of wages and the receivers of wages . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The course was important to me for several reasons . |
| 20 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |