Example sentences of "i [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ?
2 Canan and her boss know exactly what to expect from each other : ‘ It 's far easier for me to work for another Turk because I can talk about pay rates and things like that more openly .
3 He made me wait for two years .
4 She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’
5 If you have any recipes that work particularly well , please let me know for future editions of this book .
6 In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already .
7 yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came
8 I asked for certain research facilities and I got them .
9 My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib .
10 I asked for professional counselling which I did n't get . ’
11 I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note .
12 I asked for special leave and borrowed the eighty pounds for a short-term return ticket on the letter-mail route to the UK .
13 I asked for more money because of Zadak : I wanted to give him money for rain .
14 I asked for more work — anything to keep my mind occupied .
15 And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions .
16 I asked for 15 rehearsals for the Benvenuto Cellini in Geneva ( in February ) and both the orchestra manager and the intendant at the house thought I was crazy .
17 I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre .
18 I asked for some children to work with me .
19 Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it .
20 Right , that 's the end of that then , so let's move on to the projected sales reports I asked for last time .
21 And I applied for that job , and I got it .
22 It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered !
23 The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward .
24 It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours .
25 This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain .
26 I still possess a tape-recording of a news report I made for Irish radio in which — to a background of Palestinian rifle fire — I hear my own voice informing listeners in the furthest villages of County Mayo that they are listening to ‘ the last shots of the Lebanese civil war ’ .
27 I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't .
28 Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all .
29 I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody .
30 Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat
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