Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 5 | By now it has sold out , so I opt for a gin and tonic , at a price commensurate with a drink at the Ritz . |
| 6 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 7 | To make this even more ridiculous , I decided to select the most unlikely container I could think of , so I opted for a supermarket plastic carrier bag . |
| 8 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
| 9 | I was awake early , so I went for a swim . |
| 10 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
| 11 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
| 12 | Fortunately we had an alternative target so I asked for a course . |
| 13 | 11.01am : Pavement feels softer than usual , so I lie for a while before crawling to the ‘ Suck and Syphon ’ , Editor 's favourite pub . |
| 14 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 15 | ‘ Do you mind if I go for a swim ? ’ |
| 16 | When I was sure he was alone , I followed him into the bank and while he queued I read a leaflet to see if I qualified for a home mortgage . |
| 17 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 18 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 19 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 20 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 21 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
| 22 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 23 | ‘ If I pose for a photograph will you all go away and leave me to some peace and quiet ? ’ |
| 24 | I do n't recall , well in fact I 'm being sarcastic because I know for a , we know that it was n't in the manifesto for nineteen ninety two . |
| 25 | Because I work for a Water Authority which is active in the farming of coarse fish , I have access to some interesting books . |
| 26 | It was going fine till I tried for a reduction . |
| 27 | Well aware of the undertaking he added ‘ The day before I went for a load of beers to prepare for the ordeal . ’ |
| 28 | When I ask for a carrot now mummy I , I 'll just have a big feast . |
| 29 | When I go for a night session I make sure to arrive well before darkness , usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8 p.m. in summer , when dusk does not fall until 10 p.m. or so . |
| 30 | And there was prejudice once when I went for a job . |