Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] 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 ‘ 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 .
11 EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price .
12 ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
13 ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time .
14 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 .
15 I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun .
16 I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’
17 I know you for a pure creature .
18 ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’
19 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 .
20 I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it .
21 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 .
22 I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’
26 Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim .
27 In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work .
28 I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves
29 When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once .
30 Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture .
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