Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 2 | When the time comes an' I ca n't lift a hundredweight of sugar or me old black pan , then it 'll be time for me to retire upstairs for good . ’ |
| 3 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 4 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 5 | I mean obviously for thirty |
| 6 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 7 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
| 8 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 9 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 10 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 11 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
| 12 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 13 | There 's nothing that I want though for spare , cos I 've probably got it |
| 14 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 15 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 16 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 17 | Hateley baffled and upset by the affair says : ‘ I came in for that one game , and I thought I did reasonably well . |
| 18 | ‘ I came back for pre-season perfectly all right and fit , but I twisted the ankle in the first minute of our first workout game against Brentford at the training ground . |
| 19 | Shall I send off for that ? |
| 20 | So I put in for that and I got that . |
| 21 | So anyway I put in for this job and and there were people who who ought to have got it before me , er for instance er there was a councillor at er at , Tom , did you know Tom ? |
| 22 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's what I hang around for all day , ’ said the poet , ‘ when your mother is doing something useful . ’ |
| 24 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 25 | ‘ I know not for sure . |
| 26 | I slow down for some cows and greet many people but I do n't usually have to stop now , even for elders . |
| 27 | I stuck around for another seven years for the children 's sake but it was very unsatisfactory . |
| 28 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
| 29 | I reckon just for this it 'll cost you about eighteen quid . |
| 30 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |