Example sentences of "have [vb pp] me for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One that has plagued me for some while .
2 I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work .
3 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 .
4 I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination .
5 He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars !
6 On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example .
7 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 .
8 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 ’ .
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