Example sentences of "i [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , perhaps you might allow me to go for a walk from time to time , instead of waiting around in the servants ’ hall . |
| 2 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 3 | Told me to wait for the horse to lift its tail . ’ |
| 4 | My father wished me to try for a history scholarship and I occasionally read as hard as it was possible to do without any interest in history beyond the attempt to memorize facts … . |
| 5 | Sufficiently long gap between contractions for me to smile for the camera . |
| 6 | You want my money , you want my support , you want me to campaign for the future , you want me to recruit , then to get all of this reduce the cost of the subscriptions thus encouraging mass trade union membership . |
| 7 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 8 | You would have forfeited Tracy Castle immediately , and ‘ t would have been granted to me to hold for the King . |
| 9 | Just do n't expect me to ring for an ambulance in the morning when you 're discovered suffering from pneumonia and exposure ! ’ |
| 10 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ said Fribble , ‘ Calatin here has been so kind as to invite me to stay for a while . |
| 12 | Did any News reader obtain one and would they sell me a copy or allow me to pay for a loan of a negative ? |
| 13 | Of course , if you want me to pay for the call I will . ’ |
| 14 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 15 | I could understand the term ‘ genetic engineering ’ — well , as long as nobody asked me to speak for a minute without hesitation or deviation — and I recognized ‘ DNA ’ , which was said to be the basic stuff of life . |
| 16 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |