Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 2 | I used to listen for hours about her girlhood in Sheffield : smoking out of the window ; the young soldier she visited in hospital in the First World War , who gave her his rosary and went off and was killed ; of her suitors ; the fuss surrounding her affair with my father , who was much older than her ( and already married , though this she never told me ) . |
| 3 | The bag I used to use for work when I was a hired help , oh my God ! |
| 4 | Oh , Shelley , Clive was a nice enough person and he was always good to me , but he was n't right for me , and although I appeared to live happily I used to long for things to be as they were between Felipe and me . |
| 5 | address , I used to play for Caythorpe Cricket Club , half the clubs used to go to Caythorpe in Lincolnshire before they found us . |
| 6 | I used to work for McGovern , who challenged and lost the Presidential election to Nixon . |
| 7 | that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood ! |
| 8 | I used to look , I used to look for bargains . |