Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May claim thee for his pains . |
| 2 | ‘ Dear sweet Lord above , I do thank Thee for Thy kindness in showing me this lovely woman before I died . ’ |
| 3 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 4 | Also , if anybody 's not actually paid me for their book that they actually purchased last week , I 'm open to accept payment today . |
| 5 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 6 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 7 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 8 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |
| 9 | ‘ So you do blame me for her blindness , ’ he said menacingly . |
| 10 | ‘ And to blame me for her bitterness is the height of absurdity ! |
| 11 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 12 | Do not ask me for its modern systematic name ! |
| 13 | Remember that scare quotes themselves are simply disclaimers ( " this is n't my word , so do n't blame me for its implications " ) ; they do not solve — or even identify — the problems that the word presents . |
| 14 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a God , and He 's punishing me for our sin , punishing me through Denny . ’ |
| 16 | Did Billy take , ooh forget me for me bedroom |
| 17 | I was n't there at the time and I 'm damned if they 're going to top me for your brothers . |
| 18 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 19 | dir : You ca n't blame me for your failure to secure funding . |
| 20 | ‘ Blaming me for your own inadequacy . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I pleaded with you to stay but you turned your back on me for your career and your partner . |
| 22 | When you walked out on me for your career and your partner ? ’ |
| 23 | For example , I have never received a personal letter following my stay to thank me for my custom . |
| 24 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 25 | The line ‘ women only like me for my mind ’ is clever … |
| 26 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 27 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 28 | I said , ‘ You asked me for my knowledge of these people . |
| 29 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 30 | ‘ They ignored this question , and aggressively asked me for my name , address and my employer 's name . |