Example sentences of "for i " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the book there are false notes , those of a Hemingway war correspondent : ‘ Every knock at the door could mean the end for me . |
| 2 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 3 | It was for me . |
| 4 | Classical acting is really quite a recent thing for me so it 's a case of speaking the verse as naturally as possible but observing it ‘ s rhythms and structure . |
| 5 | But first , for me everything was interrupted by six years of army service after which like so many others I had to start again . |
| 6 | For me it was also at school playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek . |
| 7 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 8 | It was n't your painting , it was n't up to you to decide for me . |
| 9 | Always there waiting for me when I go deep enough . |
| 10 | Yesterday , he wrote , it started to dance for me again . |
| 11 | And finally , for me , the end . |
| 12 | My feeling that no project would ever hold any interest for me again . |
| 13 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but not for me , he wrote . |
| 14 | Too late for me and too late for the world . |
| 15 | ‘ I know this is a bit of an unusual hobby for a restaurateur , but it 's a little dream come true for me and I 'm thrilled to bits , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Simple pensione for me . |
| 17 | Should you wish advice from the world 's greatest detective you may enquire for me at the Rose and Crown . |
| 18 | ‘ Put them on for me , Conroy , ’ she said , leaning back on both hands against the dressing-table . |
| 19 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 20 | I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me . |
| 21 | He was Looking for me . |
| 22 | Almost as many people turned up for me as had for Youngman . |
| 23 | And , I realized , for me too . |
| 24 | The idea of leaving London for good — with its galleries , the opera and everything — was just too much for me . |
| 25 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 26 | The boys had now decided on a nickname for me : Mona , after Leonardo 's Mona Lisa . |
| 27 | I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’ |
| 28 | People always blame the stranger when something like that happens — why should it be any different for me ? |
| 29 | However , these were now too low and my prospects too poor for me to continue along that track . |
| 30 | This is the most difficult part of my story for me to tell . |