Example sentences of "[verb] i for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 4 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 7 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 8 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 9 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 14 | You take me for some kind of fool , do you ? |
| 15 | You take me for some kind of arsehole ! |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | If the Inspector had planned to unsettle me for some reason , he had succeeded . |