Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fingered me for those burglaries . |
| 32 | They asked me for more money . |
| 33 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 34 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 35 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 36 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |
| 37 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 38 | You take me for some kind of arsehole ! |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 41 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 42 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 43 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 44 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 45 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 46 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 47 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 48 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 49 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 50 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 51 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
| 54 | If the Inspector had planned to unsettle me for some reason , he had succeeded . |
| 55 | She 's always pissed off with me for some reason ! |
| 56 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 57 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 58 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 59 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 60 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |