Example sentences of "me [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have a bath an' all an' my brither-in-law 'll see me right for the gear . ’ |
| 2 | It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 4 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 5 | Did he live with me only for the sake of appearances , perhaps ? |
| 6 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 7 | Alan , whom I did n't know very well , had invited Ann and me over for the day , and had also offered to act as our gillie . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's finished me off for the day , that has ! |
| 9 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 10 | You put me aside for the winter . |
| 11 | And that 's me up for the day . |
| 12 | you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did . |
| 13 | To soften me up for the kill ? |
| 14 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 15 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 18 | Well do I recall the ecstasy , and the shame , when on about two occasions each year during the summer he would take Jerry , Anna and me out for the day to one of the many beautiful villages around Glasgow . |
| 19 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 20 | Then : ‘ You 'll have to let me out for the Jubilee . |
| 21 | Join me tomorrow for the Friday football round-up plus the story which has rocked the junior game to its foundations . |
| 22 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 23 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy apologised to me earlier for the fact that he has had to leave the Chamber because he is due to make a speech on clean coal technology elsewhere in London . |