Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 2 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 7 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 8 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 9 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 10 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 11 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 12 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 13 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 14 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 15 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 16 | And I think for the dyslexic child , for the disturbed child generally , we need to offer an atmosphere which is calm . |
| 17 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 18 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 19 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 20 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 21 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 22 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 23 | I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man . |
| 24 | Another three weeks passed as I waited for the reassuring ‘ chit ’ . |
| 25 | As I reached for the fallen picture he said to me , ‘ That door 's gooin' ter fall off its 'inges one of these times . ’ |
| 26 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |