Example sentences of "i have [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 2 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 3 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 4 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 5 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 6 | It feels cold : I had hoped for spring but what I am finding is winter . |
| 7 | Although I had hoped for justice and understanding when my story was known , that was not to be . |
| 8 | What I had mistaken for affectation was nothing but concentration . |
| 9 | I had to go for consumption . |
| 10 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 11 | Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays , and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of ‘ fellas ’ and clothes and make-up — subjects never of any interest to me . |
| 12 | I had gone for coffee in the student room in order to avoid my colleagues . |
| 13 | Major Hal , who met us on arrival , insisted that I had qualified for membership in the ‘ Short-Snorters ’ Club ’ . |
| 14 | The company chief , who also has a £1 million manor house at Seend , Wilts , took the microphone to say : ‘ I had to file for bankruptcy yesterday . |
| 15 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 16 | I was very proud of the reputation I had earned for exactness on timing . |
| 17 | I had to apply for access — access to my own daughter who I 'd lived with all her life . |
| 18 | She 'd wanted me to come to Lochgair and say sorry to him there , but I had begged for mercy , and — rather to my surprise — been granted it . |
| 19 | As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead . |
| 20 | I 've gone for quality service : if clients say jump , we jump . |
| 21 | That 's why I 've applied for school in September . |
| 22 | ‘ Just about everything I 've done for film and TV . |
| 23 | and er , it helps me to , it 's only a hobby , you know , but er , it 's one that I 've had for donkey years , I want to er keep going with it as long as I can |
| 24 | ‘ I 've come for t'lot , Mrs Stringer ! ’ |
| 25 | Is that all the jam left I 've got for tea ? |
| 26 | This latter alternative , the old route , is strongly to be recommended , however , the traveller being rewarded by a magnificent intimate view of a mountain of rare visual appeal , Ben Loyal , the first of the scenic highlights I have selected for inclusion in this book . |
| 27 | I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful . |
| 28 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 29 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 30 | I have read for review , but not usually in the end reviewed , not a few books where this seems to have occurred . |