Example sentences of "i [vb past] you for " 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 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 3 | No I asked you for formally for permission to go ahead and go ahead with the . |
| 4 | I asked you for your one pound eighty five and you said no . |
| 5 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 7 | How I hated you for that . ’ |
| 8 | Oh , Maggie , I 'm sorry I blamed you for telling Felipe . |
| 9 | I loved you for . |
| 10 | ‘ But I loved you for your art-because you were a wonderful actress , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 12 | You were so stubborn , but I loved you for it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 14 | It was n't difficult ; I lost you for a moment when you covered your hair , but I know you too well for you to be able to hide from me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 16 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I first met you , I took you for a pleasure anorexic . ’ |
| 18 | I took you for a bit of a rogue , but maybe you 're just a fool . |
| 19 | ‘ I took you for Adam , for he 's gone down Mountsorrel to fetch in some supplies . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm too full of relief that you are n't the mercenary bitch I took you for . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The one I gave you for Christmas ? ’ |
| 22 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 23 | I keep a record of the book number that you are given , that 's another record that I 've written down here , and then I keep , within that record , I keep details of your marks all the way across , what I gave you for your erm attainment and effort grades progress checks , your exam marks and so on . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | ‘ Still , I liked you for standin' up for me like you did . |
| 26 | I do n't know what I married you for , you 've always been frigid — even when Uncle Joe sent that powdered rhino horn from Saudi Arabia . ’ |
| 27 | I forgave you for being a man ages ago but , generally speaking , the male sex is … ’ |