Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delicately I reached for the telephone . |
| 2 | So I reached for the senator 's hand , and thereby couched my lance to face the dragon 's fire . |
| 3 | That sounded great to me so I opted for the hike . |
| 4 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 5 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 6 | Home I went for the Christmas vac with the ragged tatters of what should have been a well-moulded start to a brilliant career ! |
| 7 | The more I did for the Trust , the more I learnt about pregnancy , birth , breastfeeding , motherhood and myself . |
| 8 | Calmly I paid for the pod 's berth and walked away , neither too fast nor too slow . |
| 9 | Today I called for the gravy dinner plus two vedge and a carafe of red — which for me , rotting veteran of Pizza Pit and Burger Shack , of Doner Den and Furter Hut , is the equivalent of a handful of brown rice and a glass of effervescent Vitamin C. ( There are health-food joints around here , run by aged hippies or unsmiling Danes . |
| 10 | A year or so ago I motored for the fun of it through Latvia and Estonia , from Riga to what was then still Leningrad , and never thought to encounter such ramshackle roads again . |
| 11 | Then I waited for the evening to come , but the hours passed very slowly . |