Example sentences of "i was [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently my father-in-law died , and I was anxious for our children to go and see him and say goodbye . |
| 2 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 4 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 5 | I turned down a couple of T V series cos I did n't feel I was right for them . |
| 6 | I changed , ready for bed , but I was warm for the room was warm , and so turned my gas fire down several times . |
| 7 | ‘ I was upset for a while , but I do n't seem to care any more . |
| 8 | And besides , I was pleased for Stuart , whose derrière , voluminous and pensile as it was , had not spent much of its existence in the beurre . |
| 9 | ‘ I was pleased for Stuart because he works hard in training and he deserved the result for his performance , ’ said McHale . |
| 10 | Bernie laid right into me , telling me I was stupid for losing them . |
| 11 | I suppose I was overdue for a move . |
| 12 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 13 | I sold it once when I was skint for fifty quid , that was before I was married . |
| 14 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 15 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 16 | But while I was house-sitting for Nassim , Fenella had been cat-sitting for me . |
| 17 | I was late for the reception . |
| 18 | ‘ I was late for the match and in a tearing hurry . |
| 19 | I was late for " call-over " , and every morning I was duly caned . |
| 20 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 21 | ‘ I was late for work ’ — too bad . |
| 22 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
| 23 | Of course I was due for a humiliation . |
| 24 | You were supposed to get home leaves but every time I was due for mine they used to stop it . |
| 25 | I was unconscious for five hours , and suffered concussion and fractures . |
| 26 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 27 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 28 | ‘ I was unavailable for the game against the Midlands and the side won despite losing a number of players . |
| 29 | A friend and I were in the back streets of St Tropez , looking for a taxi , and I was desperate for a pee . |
| 30 | I did a length just to loosen up and by the end of it I was desperate for a cigarette . |