Example sentences of "[conj] i have [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 2 | I certainly would not like to do without my own sound card now that I 've had one for some time , and I 'm seriously considering changing it for a Laserwave Plus , purely because I find its configurability and standard of sound to be better than the one I already have . |
| 3 | To the same guy that I 'd bought it for twe er for twenty off . |
| 4 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 5 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 6 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 7 | How often is it that I have asked you for money ? |
| 8 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 9 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 11 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 12 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 13 | You 've all heard that and I 've heard it for about thirty years now . |
| 14 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 15 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 16 | I 've got a lot of my favourite garments from them , and I 've had them for years , ’ she says . |
| 17 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 18 | Er I used to collect the Cat Stevens ' L Ps and I 've got one for sale . |
| 19 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 20 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 21 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 22 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 23 | And they have happened as I have wanted , and I have taken it for granted that they have because I know where I 'm going . |
| 24 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 25 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 27 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 28 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 29 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |
| 30 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |