Example sentences of "for [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turn for where I remember the door to be and see others pitching forward , slamming drinks down to cover their faces with their hands . |
| 2 | Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong … |
| 3 | Jim was elected to Portsmouth city council in nineteen seventy six as a member for where I understand he tried to play football occasionally until nineteen eighty six . |
| 4 | But for that I got described as ‘ professionally nice ’ . ’ |
| 5 | But for that I need Wealth , O Lord , I confess it : without it I am worthless ; just let me get my hands on it and I will be an ornament to Your name . ’ |
| 6 | Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia . |
| 7 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 8 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 9 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 10 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 11 | No , and as for and I du n no . |
| 12 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 13 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 14 | Mm Oh I 've put in for one to pay the erm interest on the mortgage , which I have to do and that 's all being seen to because I 've had another letter saying can you tell me what this second loan were for and I 've put down yes , it was for windows and sent a bit of paper er , you know , that we 've paid four thousand seven hundred and something , five thousand , nine hundred and something we 've paid for them windows and I 've spent that |
| 15 | Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |
| 16 | Yeah there 's the others erm what was it , I was gon na look for and I turned bloody on whatever his bleeding name is . |
| 17 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 18 | I do n't know who you 're looking for and I do n't want to know but even I can see that whoever it is he wo n't be overjoyed to see you … ’ |
| 19 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 20 | I was the one in hide-and-seek that you never came looking for and I hid for hours from no-one … . |
| 21 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 22 | But then what happened it was so successful for and I think got so greedy on it they decided to go an American |
| 23 | And we might like to give credit for And I think it 's really hard to learn to read the signs . |
| 24 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 25 | he 's heard from insurance people for cos I 've already asked Mike |
| 26 | What time are you gon na get the meal ready for cos I need to have a bath ? |
| 27 | What time are you gon na get it ready for cos I need to have a bath ? |
| 28 | I 'm off for cos I have got no work experience cos and she could n't get me work experience in June and now everybody else is in work experience I get the week off . |
| 29 | Just see how you 've walked into this house without a thought for if I wished to use it . ’ |
| 30 | for another two hundred pound for if I get it right is it to fetch it over to Mansfield or their |