Example sentences of "i for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 2 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 3 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 4 | Indeed , leave all practical matters to me for all time . |
| 5 | Will you really stay with me for all time , be my wife ? ’ |
| 6 | Now , where did you say you were going to take me for that drink ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No , I was hoping you 'd join me for that drink . ’ |
| 8 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 9 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 10 | Or in me for that matter ? |
| 11 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 12 | And marriage and being a mother terrifies me for that reason . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 14 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 15 | I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day . |
| 16 | ‘ Excuse me for one minute . ’ |
| 17 | to last me for one month , because we 've got to put it on . |
| 18 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 19 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 20 | So tomorrow at two o'clock Miss Trunchbull will be taking over from me for one lesson . |
| 21 | I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes , and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth . |
| 22 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 23 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |
| 24 | He said ‘ I did n't say it was right ’ he said , ‘ I said that is what they perceived ’ and he turned to the person next to him afterwards , he says ‘ well , that 's finished me for any promotion a job for promotion ’ . |
| 25 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 26 | They asked me for more money . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 28 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 29 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 30 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |