Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 2 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 3 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 4 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 5 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 6 | When I took out my mortgage with the Halifax , I plumped for a fixed rate . |
| 7 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 8 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 9 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 10 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 11 | no , well I would n't mind going there , but , I meant for a first holiday , a little holiday I mean you enjoyed that did last April did n't you ? |
| 12 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 13 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 14 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 15 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 16 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 17 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 18 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 19 | The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 . |
| 20 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 21 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |
| 22 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 23 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 24 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 25 | ‘ I smiled for a brief moment in triumph , ’ he said , ‘ then , as the photographers moved |
| 26 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 27 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 28 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 29 | I wished for a new dress as I washed and ironed my old yellow home-made mini for the hundredth time . |
| 30 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |