Example sentences of "i [vb past] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 3 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 4 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 5 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 6 | I headed for the white gleam of a village in the distance and was grateful to find that the one and only store sold iced drinks . |
| 7 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 8 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 9 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 10 | I noticed for the first rime that there was a little hole in the door . |
| 11 | He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt . |
| 12 | Looking back , I noticed for the first time how wind-bent and close-cropped were the cypresses . |
| 13 | I noticed for the first time that it was dreadfully long . |
| 14 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 15 | Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) . |
| 16 | Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe . |
| 17 | I arrived for the American premiere and these ghosts made no sense at all . |
| 18 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 19 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
| 20 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 21 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 22 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 23 | And I believe it was then , looking on that view , that I began for the first time to adopt a frame of mind appropriate for the journey before me . |
| 24 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 25 | Counc tonight it was mentioned the actual the work of the Regional Health Authority and , again , I worked for the Regional Health Authority a long time ago . |
| 26 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 27 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 28 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 29 | In the Annual Report two years ago , I called for the careful co-ordination of export support services from both private and public sector organisations . |
| 30 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |