Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] i was " in BNC.
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| 1 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 2 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 3 | After that for some months I was unemployed . |
| 4 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 5 | For three hours I was sitting in a dressing gown . |
| 6 | Yeah , and I came , for three weeks I was coming down stairs on my bottom like a toddler , I could n't go from |
| 7 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
| 8 | A Man for All Seasons I was gon na say . |
| 9 | Sometimes for many months I was the only white person for hundreds of miles . |
| 10 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 11 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
| 12 | For many years I was a governor of Port Slade School and Comprehensive College and I thought that was a very impressive school , as I am sure you would agree . |
| 13 | ‘ For ten years I was a mason , carving ornaments for God 's holy churches — offering up the fruits of my labour to Him in Heaven who carved Man from Eden 's clay ! |
| 14 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 15 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 16 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 17 | I thought for thought for fifteen minutes I was er should I or should I not join the company . |
| 18 | In fact , for fifteen years I was a village cricketer for Sheepscombe , deep into Cotswold country , beyond Stroud and Painswick . |
| 19 | For thirty years I was his friend . |
| 20 | For two months I was very ill and wished only to die . |
| 21 | ‘ For two years I was crippled by repeated foot injuries , caused simply by the shoes I was wearing . |
| 22 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 23 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 24 | For two days I was n't allowed on the show , and they What they said was there was too many other people on before hand . |