Example sentences of "me [adv] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 2 | ‘ That serves me right for going out to fetch it fresh . ’ |
| 3 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 4 | ‘ Put me down for picketing , Bob , ’ says Robyn . |
| 5 | She might have put me down for talking . |
| 6 | She could have put me down for talking |
| 7 | I 've yet to work out why you were quite so angry with me just for hauling you out of the water , Caroline . ’ |
| 8 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 9 | And Mum 's always telling me off for doing things wrong . |
| 10 | She told me off for doing the wrong colour there . |
| 11 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 12 | And it 's a great way for Silvia and your brother to pay me back for trying to interfere in their sordid little love-affair . |
| 13 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 14 | But if you think that money can ever pay me back for losing the little child — who came to the forge — and always the best of friends ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I see it now — it 's that stupid young fool 's idea of a joke , to pay me out for objecting to the way he 's been behaving towards Rose ! |
| 16 | Luckily , my mum is sound ; she never would have thrown me out for putting rips in my jeans or anything like that . |
| 17 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 18 | What you 've got to do now is make them into salesmen , forgive me again for using the phrase salesmen , I appreciate that all of you are not men . |