Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] me for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still he want to feed me for ever . |
| 2 | ‘ What I do n't understand is why you appear to blame me for something someone else thought and said . ’ |
| 3 | I know I 'm not a wallflower — other boys keep asking me for a date — but Harry just does n't seem to notice me . |
| 4 | ‘ So you do blame me for her blindness , ’ he said menacingly . |
| 5 | But … like all malais ( do forgive me for this ) her backside had been innocent of paper all her life . |
| 6 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 7 | You 've known me for yonks . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They 've asked me for ten days , ’ Blanche said . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've told Myra you 've mistaken me for Dana and that you 're making me go with you to look for Garry , but she 's inclined to discount that — she 's building a romance round us . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 12 | ‘ Care to join me for a snifter , old boy ? ’ he said , buttoning on his chamois leather glove with the hole in the thumb . |
| 13 | ‘ You have paid me for the ring , a little , ’ he said aloud , and got off the bed , leaving her in disorder . |