Example sentences of "i [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think you could find anyone in your village who 'd take me in for that ? |
| 2 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's get out of here before MacLane shows and tries to pull me in for this . ’ |
| 4 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 5 | I 'm just can you put me down for some paracetamols for the pain |
| 6 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 7 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 9 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 10 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 11 | The atmosphere of the Fens and the peculiarities of these strange fish , even after all those years , keep calling me back for more . |
| 12 | Why have you brought me out for this ? ’ |
| 13 | Why single me out for this honour ? ’ he mocked . |
| 14 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |