Example sentences of "i [vb past] [conj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 2 | I forgot that for a while during the '80s but I 'm back now , ’ Starr said . |
| 3 | In Acts 8 , I saw that for the converts in Samaria , although wonderfully converted and delivered from evil ( v 7 ) and baptised ( v 12 ) , there was still something missing . |
| 4 | ‘ I wished that for a long time , Lizzy , but your father has a different approach to life . ’ |
| 5 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |