Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 2 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 4 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 5 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 6 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 7 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 8 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 9 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 10 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 12 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 14 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 15 | Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time . |
| 16 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 17 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 18 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 19 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 20 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 21 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 22 | I experienced the joy and excitement of the subject as I discovered something for the first time . |
| 23 | Okay , tell me , " I said , and I stiffened myself for the worst . |
| 24 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 25 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 26 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 27 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 28 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 29 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 30 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |