Example sentences of "[v-ing] me for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 2 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 3 | Now he keeps blamin' me for keepin' her clean . |
| 4 | I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ . |
| 5 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 6 | I suppose that 's your way of punishing me for kissing you yesterday evening . |
| 7 | I still remember that day in the war when , as a very junior subaltern , my CO left me a little hand-written note admonishing me for appearing at breakfast unshaven . |
| 8 | But not when he 's taking me for granted . |
| 9 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 10 | ‘ What makes you think you 're taking me for granted ? ’ |
| 11 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 12 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |