Example sentences of "me [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 2 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 4 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 5 | Alan , whom I did n't know very well , had invited Ann and me over for the day , and had also offered to act as our gillie . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's finished me off for the day , that has ! |
| 7 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 8 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 9 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 10 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 11 | And that 's me up for the day . |
| 12 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 13 | To soften me up for the kill ? |
| 14 | you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did . |
| 15 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 16 | Well do I recall the ecstasy , and the shame , when on about two occasions each year during the summer he would take Jerry , Anna and me out for the day to one of the many beautiful villages around Glasgow . |
| 17 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 18 | Then : ‘ You 'll have to let me out for the Jubilee . |
| 19 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |