Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh no , although it was a bit further than I bargained for . |
| 2 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 3 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 4 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 5 | I do n't recall , well in fact I 'm being sarcastic because I know for a , we know that it was n't in the manifesto for nineteen ninety two . |
| 6 | He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state . |
| 7 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 8 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 9 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 10 | It was going fine till I tried for a reduction . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't do that unless I know for sure , can I ? ’ shrieked Felicity . |
| 12 | I am sure that I speak for all district society presidents when I say that this is just not true . |
| 13 | ‘ I am a rich woman ; he left everything to me , and so he should have done , after all that I sacrificed for him . |
| 14 | You see , God 's grace is provided in Jesus Christ all that I need for salvation . |
| 15 | So God 's grace is provided in Jesus Christ , all that I need for salvation and for a life that will please God . |
| 16 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 17 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
| 18 | It is more than I bargain for to recall the names of my own … family . ’ |
| 19 | Thomson does push ahead at the risoluto marking in the third movement slightly more than I care for , and there are one or two idiosyncratic touches elsewhere , albeit of little importance . |
| 20 | ‘ But that 's hardly more than I paid for it ! ’ protested Edward Crumwallis , his voice high with outrage and fear . |
| 21 | I 've got a , er comb , I 've got one of those that I use for Anthony at the moment and why brush ? |
| 22 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
| 23 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 24 | ‘ My philosophy disagrees with theirs in the long-term because I think for them to succeed properly , they have to subvert from within . |
| 25 | ‘ I was too thin when I played for Derry . |
| 26 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 27 | If I 'm going to a club I will wear much the same as I wear for work . |
| 28 | I 'm fond of Cora-Beth , very fond , but it is n't the same as I feel for Madeleine and somehow I 'll have to explain that to her . |
| 29 | In burning his New Testament , he wrote , they did ‘ none other than I looked for : no more shall they do if they burn me also , if it be God 's will it shall be so ’ . |
| 30 | God seemed remote but I appealed for his protection and received a measure of assurance , though I felt that I was followed by an evil presence . |