Example sentences of "as i [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ricardo shows great patience with me as I reach for the dictionary or , using a book and his long fingers , he makes the rituals clear to me . |
| 2 | As we moved along I could n't help feeling apprehensive as I looked for newly disturbed ground that could contain a box mine , or glancing at the trees and hedges for signs of booby-traps . |
| 3 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 4 | All kinds of thoughts raced through my mind as I waited for the explosion in our midst . |
| 5 | Another three weeks passed as I waited for the reassuring ‘ chit ’ . |
| 6 | I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man . |
| 7 | I set traps for you , and you seemed to fall into them — that is , you reacted as I longed for you to react , but you were n't supposed to react at all because you were n't supposed to feel anything for me ! |
| 8 | The ward had been full , the nurses worked off their feet , but their care for me — and as far as I knew for the others — had been magnificent . |
| 9 | Wiggen , one of my wheel dog pair , a monster of a dog weighing nearly thirty-five kilograms , jumps all over me as I go for him . |
| 10 | But sometimes I get cut up by another vehicle as I go for a space — and it 's always a man . ’ |
| 11 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 12 | In March , I had a week of sustained psychological warfare with a heron : it would hunch on the garage roof as I left for work , and I could well imagine the thoughts of piscicide running through its reptilian brain . |
| 13 | Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail . |
| 14 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |
| 15 | I take advantage of the silence as I wait for the punch-line to review the facts and fictions of the short story of Dudley Moore 's life . |
| 16 | As I reached for the fallen picture he said to me , ‘ That door 's gooin' ter fall off its 'inges one of these times . ’ |
| 17 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 18 | By 9.00 a badger was warily sniffing the air in front of me , as I struggled for breath in the shadows . |
| 19 | A harmless grass snake , I concluded , although I must admit that the proximity of the Reptile Centre did make me a touch more circumspect than usual as I made for the summit . |
| 20 | As I prayed for the peace of our souls and for forgiveness for both of us , I was startled to see the wick on his candle fall over and almost go out , while mine remained upright and brightly shining . |
| 21 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 22 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 23 | As I went for vigorous afternoon walks along the footpath by the half-frozen river or across the frosty fields and up the sheep-tracks on to the hills and the bare moors beyond . |
| 24 | Okay well we 're waiting as far as I know for the money to come |
| 25 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 26 | But as I turn for home through the valley meadows , with rooks massing above the woods on either side , I begin to strike lucky . |
| 27 | Later came the acute attacks of asthma — and the need for Caroline to pummel me ( it 's hilarious only in retrospect ! ) as I fought for breath . |
| 28 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 29 | Oh sure , I thought , as I queued for my ticket to London . |
| 30 | Some were obviously more interested in break-dancing than poster writing , as I witnessed for myself . |