Example sentences of "i [verb] 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 've read things in papers people are supposed to have said and think , ‘ You obnoxious twat , I hate you for saying that , ’ but I know there 's gay people out there who read that thing in NME and know it 's a load of bollocks . |
| 7 | It is n't enough for you , and I hate you for it , and I want you to go before you decide to leave me , and I love you , and how am I expected to stand being cooped up with him . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes I hate you for it , ’ she said , more harshly , perhaps , than she had intended . |
| 9 | That 's what I hate you for , Luke . |
| 10 | I have n't been able to make myself believe I hate you for some time now , Luke . ’ |
| 11 | But might I trouble you for a cup of hot water ? ’ |
| 12 | He went and bought a pack of cigarettes from the machine behind him , searched his pockets , then asked : ‘ Could I trouble you for a light , Miss ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Could I trouble you for a receipt ? ’ |
| 14 | For example , ‘ I forgive you for being so patronising towards me ’ would make them feel that they were having their sins confessed to them . |
| 15 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 16 | I forgive you for making me suffer , but how can I forgive you for dying ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I want you for my general — my most trusted man . |
| 19 | I want you for an angel ! |
| 20 | I want you for the West End after your six weeks in the sticks , and you 'll have to have a bit of bosom . ’ |
| 21 | That 's what I want you for ! |
| 22 | Cos you do n't know what I want you for . |
| 23 | You are as wonderful as I expected , and I worship you for it . |
| 24 | ‘ So in about ten months we 'd have him out and around , or else what am I paying you for ? ’ |
| 25 | How I hated you for that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Rachel Santerre , ’ he intoned , ‘ I arrest you for treason and the most horrible homicides . |
| 27 | ‘ Can I see you for a minute ? ’ |
| 28 | What else do I keep you for ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And I owe you for the taxi . ’ |
| 30 | You must tell me what I owe you for the meal . |