Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
2 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
3 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
4 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
5 | They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ? |
6 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |