Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure that you 're aware that my mother was American and that I lived in London for many years as a boy when my father was military attaché at the German Embassy . |
| 3 | ‘ I lived in America for a long time and I can see through the glossy image-making of his campaign , I think . |
| 4 | I lived in York for 17 years before returning home and saw the outer ring road being built there . |
| 5 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 6 | The story had been taken up in yesterday 's paper by another lady , old-age pensioner Miss Judith Kennedy , a retired teacher who told a local reporter that ‘ I know an eagle when I see one because I lived in Cyprus for twenty years and there are many eagles there . |
| 7 | As I have already said , I lived in Canada for 9 years , but after that we moved once again , but this time to here ( England ) . |
| 8 | I did n't sleep at all until , one daybreak , I sank into unconsciousness for several hours . |
| 9 | I shouted at Selina for a while and returned to the sofa and my drink . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ The main problem I found with Paradox for Windows was that it kept hanging my computer . |
| 11 | ‘ I concentrated on toys for pre-school children because I thought I knew about them . |
| 12 | This led to another form of coaching , I just can not remember how my interest in tennis arose , save that I used to practice for hours against an airman 's table top fixed to the netting of an old tennis court . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I came to Italy for something different . |
| 14 | ‘ I came to school for a book , but I found a musician ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The first time I felt I needed a change this season was when I played against Latvia for the Republic of Ireland . |
| 16 | ‘ I quickly realised the size of my task when I drove into York for home games , ’ says Ward . |
| 17 | I drove in silence for a while . |
| 18 | and er you know I think coming to a , a university is a thing that you know like it 's a very sort of novel experience for a lot of people and you know certainly when I started the human psych course here , you know about twelve , thirteen years ago erm you know I did n't know what on earth was , was requ required and I agonized over work for quite , quite a long time and er |
| 19 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 20 | I got up and you know I swear I turned into Firmin for a moment and I said , ‘ Listen , Our Lady of Communications , I shall write and you will transmit as many fucking letters per day as I happen to feel like writing . ’ |
| 21 | I toiled through Latin for a course requirement because meteorology had too much maths in it , and felt the conjugations sluicing out of my brain the instant the exam was over . |
| 22 | Then , in 1983 , as an undergraduate , no longer in the Labour Party , I campaigned in Glasgow for a vigorous Labour Party and the return of 44 MPs , having convinced many Nationalist friends that independence was a side issue , having seen an SNP- ‘ manufactured ’ government tear apart the very fabric of our society . |
| 23 | I walked on air for a couple of days . |
| 24 | I glanced at Zak for enlightenment . |
| 25 | On the last day of October , I returned to Bristol for my day visit , this time with no fraudulent feeling . |
| 26 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 27 | On 3 June I flew into Madrid for a big invitation meeting . |
| 28 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 29 | I worked on farms for a while before I joined my present company , so I know how to handle a tractor ! |
| 30 | I , I worked in Norwich for a year and a half , so I actually know it . |