Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fear is that I am not likely to serve on the Standing Committee , although I volunteer for such duty if the opportunity be there . |
| 2 | The deal included the offices attached to one of the hangars , so I arranged for some of these to be converted into laboratories for the processing of flight data and cockpit voice recorders . |
| 3 | The truth is , I look upon both candidates in the same light , and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country if I voted for either . |
| 4 | I watched her go with sadness in my heart because I felt for some inexplicable reason that I would never see Granny again . |
| 5 | Because I work for many different functions I get the chance to see many different kinds of weddings . |
| 6 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 7 | while I looked for another face in the glass . |
| 8 | I do not know whether I speak for all my right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 9 | I mean she said to me when I went for this Men Mencap job she said erm , have you got any trade behind you ? |
| 10 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 11 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |