Example sentences of "for i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 2 | For I must tell you friendly in your ear , |
| 3 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 4 | Consequently , this ethnography will continually raise such matters simply to illustrate the dilemma as it arises , for I have consistently had to contend with the nature of an insider 's breach of social boundaries . |
| 5 | In effect , I kept a suitable silence and avoided direct confrontation , for I was well aware that the ultimate punishment under the regulations is expulsion or dismissal from the force , forfeiture of a considerable salary and pension , and , of course , the resulting immediate acquisition of true outsiderhood ! |
| 6 | Like Douglas , I see no point in setting up a false theoretical dichotomy between ‘ us ’ , and ‘ them ’ , creating separate realms and polarities of modern and archaic thought , for I anticipate my inclusion of the concept of self can help link the tribalism which haunts the police defensiveness to an understanding of their ‘ modern ’ beliefs , modes of thought , and action . |
| 7 | Our new semantic understanding was therefore linked to the changing epiphenomena of dress , hair , clothing , and the other symbols of the body I have mentioned ; but it was also manifest in an irrepressible need to reinterpret and question the social condition , for I had journeyed beyond the norms of the police system , where action to control is preferably a simple matter of enforcing the rules and regulations as they stand . |
| 8 | It can be likened to becoming ‘ them ’ or no longer being ‘ us ’ , for I had further increased my distance from the working lives of the ‘ real polises ’ and had moved out of their known world to become an outsider , a liminal mover . |
| 9 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 10 | I wo n't linger on the shingle flats , for I 'd come to climb , and the route of my choice was the first to be recorded in Wales . |
| 11 | When the designs for I M Pei 's steel-and-glass pyramid at the Louvre were unveiled four years ago , there was a running battle between police and conservationists in the hallowed courtyards of the rambling museum . |
| 12 | ‘ If I cut my profits and prices to whatever lower level you prescribe — for I assume I shall have your guidance on what that should be — will you advise me about the basis on which I should ration the consumers of my article ? |
| 13 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 14 | I shall be watching the practical results with interest to see what might be applicable to our work in the Duchy of Cornwall , for I am sure that there will be lessons that we can learn . |
| 15 | One visitor went there expecting obfuscation , for I have read Sartre on art and think that Sartre on cricket would be just as illuminating . |
| 16 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 17 | As she uncovered herself to him — ‘ for I love , and there is no loneliness , no misery , no doubt and ignorance , no hoping for that which seems vain as there used to be , but never will be again ’ — one glimpses the ideal that enabled her to accept without question the life that lay before them . |
| 18 | For I have so far lived almost wholly the outer life which is so distressing to think of and to endure . |
| 19 | For I think you can not help pondering on our meeting last night . |
| 20 | I pay , for I want to hear more of Elena 's story , to compare it with what I learned earlier in the evening . |
| 21 | I pressed , for I had begun to wonder if we were n't doomed to wander Cavan until dawn . |
| 22 | For I heard such an interesting talk on the wireless . |
| 23 | Our friendship had been noticed , as I had hoped it would be , for I was so proud of having a friend . |
| 24 | For I was still struggling in the web you had woven , like a helpless insect wanting to escape , yet hypnotized into acquiescence and adoration by the spider 's malefic eyes and enveloping threads , wound slowly one by one round my resistless mind : |
| 25 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 26 | I never went down to meet you , for I was always afraid those right-wing student bullies might be waiting for me — you they could not touch , but I was an easy prey . |
| 27 | I suffered agonies of suspense in silence , for I never knew when or where I would see you again , or whether she would be with you . |
| 28 | I was so terrified of losing him , for I sensed there would never be another love like this in my life . |
| 29 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 30 | I was silent , for I could not understand in what way he meant that my hands were ugly : I had never considered whether they were beautiful or not . |