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

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1 ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers .
2 The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE .
3 For example , all the competitors had to blow into what resembled a gas meter and the capacity of the lung was recorded , I failed to see the point of this exercise , and that , with other medical experiements , only fired my resolve to upset the doctors ' wager , which I believe was for a box of cigars .
4 ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’
5 Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis
6 That look I think was for when he next meets Gareth Gilcock .
7 But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’
8 First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes
9 In fact , although the manual supplied with the machine I purchased was for a KH710 , the machine turned out to be a KH585 , possibly an earlier model .
10 I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses .
11 The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself .
12 And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’
13 Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know .
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