Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 2 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 3 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 4 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 5 | I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses . |
| 6 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |