Example sentences of "i [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk |
| 2 | A young man wearing a yarmulka skullcap and sitting astride a roaring tractor wiped his brow with his arm when I asked for the location of Um Al-Farajh . |
| 3 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 4 | Then I asked for the inlays , two humbuckers , two volumes and a tone . |
| 5 | For Christmas and birthdays I asked for the red , hard-backed children 's classics published by Dean and Co. and sold in Woolworth 's : Treasure Island , The Children of the New Forest , Alice in Wonderland , What Katy Did , A Tale of Two Cities . |
| 6 | And I asked for the Kommandant 's help to have him released . |
| 7 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 8 | And they said so at the er at the district council , went up to district and I asked for the support of the district council and er probably John immediately said , you have the full support of the district council for it he says and I 'll ensure that you get support with the result I also received four posters direct from the Edinburgh District Council with John photograph on it and with the caption st stating every old age pensioner should be signing here . |
| 9 | From round about then , cos I asked for the |
| 10 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 11 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 12 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 13 | In 1969 , I applied for the post of Senior Lecturer at the new University of Lancaster , in the north of England ( about 240 miles north west of London ) . |
| 14 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 15 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 16 | I made for the hotel 's main building with several other reporters when a man with an assault rifle appeared and said : ‘ Hit the floor . ’ |
| 17 | I made for the sideboard again to hover . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When both mares began aiding and abetting one another to increase the confusion and alarm , somewhere high over the Gulf I made for the cabin to solicit help . |
| 20 | I had no choice but to leave and I made for the kitchen carrying the dollar on the tray like a trophy anchored by a thumb . |
| 21 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 22 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 23 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 24 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 25 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 26 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 27 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 28 | I mean for the Republicans the purpose is a united Ireland . |
| 29 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 30 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |