Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] i for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 2 | Miss Clapp sees the excuse notes and she takes me for English . |
| 3 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 4 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 5 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's awfully wild , ’ she said , ‘ but you are going the right way ’ — she was proceeding east and going into the storm at the time — and she thanked me for opening the gate . |
| 7 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 8 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 9 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 10 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 11 | ‘ He fined me for being late and he fined me for being overweight . |
| 12 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 13 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 14 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 15 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 16 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 17 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 18 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |