Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 2 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 3 | I asked him for one yesterday and he said he never had one . |
| 4 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 5 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 6 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 7 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
| 8 | I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same . |
| 9 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 10 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 11 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 12 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 13 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 16 | No I asked you for formally for permission to go ahead and go ahead with the . |
| 17 | I asked you for your one pound eighty five and you said no . |
| 18 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 19 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 20 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 21 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 22 | I mean he for him to see it walking along the road if there was anything . |
| 23 | Yeah I mean she for a bit she was the party was n't she ? |
| 24 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 25 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 27 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 28 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |