Example sentences of "i [verb] you for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 2 | ‘ Rachel Santerre , ’ he intoned , ‘ I arrest you for treason and the most horrible homicides . |
| 3 | I know you for dinner . |
| 4 | Francis will you come off the floor and go in the sitting room until I shout you for tea . |
| 5 | Like Strabo 's gladioli and lilies and roses , I keep you for sweetness ’ sake only . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The one I gave you for Christmas ? ’ |
| 7 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 8 | I resent you for engineering it and I resent you for what you think you can do to me in revenge for our affair last year . ’ |
| 9 | I need you for protection ! ’ |