Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How sorry I felt for them as I stood with my images of a future of crackling kindling and bringing the pine logs hither and other rustic carry-ons . |
| 2 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 3 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 4 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 5 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 6 | This I did for five weeks returning to hospital to have my X-rays checked . |
| 7 | Oh she said it 's silly making him do that I said er very quickly I said , I said do n't get me wrong I said for kids who enjoy going to that sort of thing it 's great and fine if it 's alright |
| 8 | And I think now these are some I took for your |
| 9 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 10 | They ask me how much I paid for everything I was wearing , how much I pay for my room at the pension , how much salary I shall be getting at the university — a salary to me ridiculously small , little more than pocket-money , but for the majority of working-class Spaniards a fortune . |
| 11 | Guess how much I paid for it ? |
| 12 | Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ? |
| 13 | Guess how much I paid for mine ? |
| 14 | That 's a forty quid profit on how much I paid for it I think I bought that for forty five quid or forty seven |
| 15 | ‘ Because I 'll never cry for you again , ’ I said , which was a very false promise , because I was crying inside at the time , and only I know how much I cried for her later . |
| 16 | In nineteen sixty six I stood for election of the national organizer and was successful and joined the head office in Glasgow in May nineteen sixty six . |
| 17 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 18 | I offered to braid them for him ; and he paid me five shillings for half a dozen I did for him . ’ |
| 19 | In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay . |
| 20 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 21 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 22 | Seventy grand I paid for it , and that was the national debt then I can tell you . |
| 23 | Well , that was all I came for . |
| 24 | ‘ All I asked for was a month 's peace and quiet to get some work done . |
| 25 | It was to be filmed in a Spanish club off Oxford Street , and I promised my flamenco friend Nuria , who taught me all I knew for my part in the About Face playlet , Señor Duende , that I would don a leotard and flounce for her . |
| 26 | All I received for my labour was my tea . |
| 27 | And all I got for that was a couple of tin medals , uh uh , aye dear Aye . |
| 28 | ‘ After all I did for you ! |
| 29 | Until the mid 1970s I fished for bream like I would any big , fish with stout rod , 5-6lb line straight through to bombs and size 8 hooks . |
| 30 | I said to her as how seeing I 'm sixty one christmas I said I I ca n't , I thought it was stupid I said for erm for them to mess around like that . |