Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | somebody 's Chronicle I borrowed for some reason |
| 2 | I apply a multiplier of nine , it follows that the figure I allow for this period is five hundred and thirty four thousand seven hundred and ninety seven pounds and sixty four pence and the total cost of future care is therefore eight hundred and ninety four thousand seven hundred and ninety seven pounds and sixty four pence . |
| 3 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |
| 4 | If I could speak French like François Mitterrand I probably would n't have the empathy I do for young horses . |
| 5 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 6 | Another important aim I envisaged for New Millennium when it was incorporated in 1983 was the development of holiday ideas which would try to eliminate damage to the environment associated with mass tourism . |
| 7 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 8 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 9 | Erm on the back I think for each course we 'll we 'll have to try and fill in . |
| 10 | As a beekeepers wife I have for many years had to use soap powder rather than scented detergent as bees do n't appreciate the chemical scents in many whiter-than-white products ( Letters NI 208 ) . |
| 11 | Make a secret I test for each character ( Dwarf -10 , Halfling -30 ) . |
| 12 | But as soon as I had the door shut I began to ransack the flat for the sheet music I keep for special occasions such as Christmas , bar mitzvahs , weddings and so on . |
| 13 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
| 14 | The card background I used for this photo frame was an extremely pale peachy pink , on which I placed some rose leaves , heuchera flowers and green spiky leaves , with ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ and ‘ Yesterday ’ roses forming the central focus . |
| 15 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 16 | I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 18 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 19 | And all the time I watch for some sign of awareness in P and M. None appears . |
| 20 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |