Example sentences of "i have [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 3 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 4 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 5 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 6 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 7 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 8 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 9 | Fingering the lump , I began to scrape the theoretical barrel-bottom ; I had prayed for the whiff of putrefaction had n't I ? |
| 10 | I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk . |
| 11 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 12 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 13 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 15 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 16 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 17 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 18 | I usually stay later , but I had to dress for the dinner party . |
| 19 | He was ‘ astonished ’ by the ‘ excessive enthusiasm ’ I had shown for the Education ! |
| 20 | In October 1940 my last year at school began ; it was going to be a year of hard work , as I had to prepare for the June examinations . |
| 21 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 22 | However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report . |
| 23 | It 's very difficult , I had to pay for the sheep when the Chichester was here . |
| 24 | I had to fight for the right to cut dresses as well as suits , to make evening dress as well as day wear and even now , when I 've proved myself in those areas , I have to fight members of my own staff who believe I should still stick to producing powerful women 's suits . |
| 25 | I had to send for the police . |
| 26 | I 've sent for the captain . |
| 27 | I 've sent for the priest . |
| 28 | I 've sent for the lad from the Upton manor , as I told Radulfus I would , and before Compline he 'll be here , and the truth will surely be out . |
| 29 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 30 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |