Example sentences of "i [vb past] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 3 | ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 6 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 7 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The things I wrote were for you . |
| 10 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 11 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 12 | Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know . |