Example sentences of "i [verb] to [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I speak to you for a moment ? ’ he asked in a lower tone . |
| 2 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 3 | When I have to leave one in mid-air I fuss to myself for days after . |
| 4 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 5 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 6 | Aye have a look , while you 're doing that I 'll have a look at what bits and pieces see if I talk to you for a minute about these |
| 7 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 8 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 9 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 10 | Mr , I turn to you for guidance on that one . |
| 11 | " I go to her for French conversation once a week . |
| 12 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 13 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 14 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 15 | I thought she were never gon na , I said to her for goodness sake , drink it ! |
| 16 | I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday ! |
| 17 | And I said to him for God 's sake stop bloody well moaning cos we 've all got ta muck in ! |
| 18 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 19 | Matilda said , ‘ Please may I talk to you for a moment ? ’ |
| 20 | I beg you to allow me to speak to her for a few moments , and , if you would be so kind , also to yourself . |