Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 4 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 7 | If I 'd asked you for it you 'd probably have punched me in the eye . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 9 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 13 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 14 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 15 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 16 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 17 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 18 | ‘ After I 've boiled them for stock of course . ’ |
| 19 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 20 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 21 | And I took it and slew them all : seven thousand warriors and old men , together with women and old women and maidens , for I had consecrated it for Ashtar-Chemosh . ’ |