Example sentences of "for [noun pl] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 2 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 3 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 4 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 5 | I had n't seen you for months I did n't know you for er |
| 6 | When I talk about positions and opportunities for pictures I do n't suggest that you can plan them all . |
| 7 | I learnt to sleep again , and for days I did not see anybody . |
| 8 | I did The Player for a third of what I can get for films I do n't want to do . |
| 9 | ‘ For years I did n't know what to do with myself when I was n't acting . |
| 10 | I 'm always looking out for things I have n't heard before . |
| 11 | Well they complain doing two for ones I mean never mind this |
| 12 | The left-wing response is to press for more money to improve these services , make them more relevant to public needs ; the right-wing response is to privatize further — and if the latter is the response you favour , then you have a wonderful excuse for withholding taxes : ’ Why should I pay for services I do n't use ? ’ |