Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had a talent , you were recognised , and often I got invited to play for the local Boy Scout group . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd stayed to look for the aristocratic drop-out . |
| 3 | Every evening I had tea with the friend or two with whom I had arranged to mess for the " half " , as a term was known at Eton . |
| 4 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 5 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 6 | I 've got to wait for the man ! |
| 7 | Only think of all my anxiety , the fears and sorrows I have had to endure for the last fortnight … |