Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I puff too much for mountaineering . ’ |
| 2 | Other radio ‘ names ’ who visited Windrush included the veteran E.V.Young , an exemplary performer , Frank Vyvyan , the English actor , and his wife Gladys who worked with Hilda Wilson in the CBC executive offices , Bill Buckingham , a versatile actor on many shows and his lovely actress wife Doris , Al Pearce , the perfect straight man , Cathy Graham , whom I admired very much for talent as well as personality , Bernard Braden , Barbara Kelly and John Drainie . |
| 3 | ‘ When I 'm away , I get so homesick for Jill . |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever I 'm away I get so homesick for Jill . |
| 5 | Anyway , er she come about aye , that 's what I were on about , I says , d' ya know I feel right sorry for Maggie out the lot of you ! |
| 6 | His new boss Alex Ferguson says : ‘ I feel desperately sorry for Dion . |
| 7 | The US pair returned a 28-under-par combined four-round total of 548 , and US Masters champion Couples declared : ‘ Davis 's putt on the last green won it for us , and I feel very sorry for Per-Ulrik . |
| 8 | … I feel very sorry for musicians , ’ she pauses , ‘ depending on my mood . |
| 9 | Tony said : ‘ I feel very sorry for Ian , who deserves his place , especially after the wonderful try he scored for England B against South Africa on Saturday . |
| 10 | I feel very sorry for people who have to work for their living now , I really do . |
| 11 | I feel nothing for the man Steve Cannock , I feel very much for Maria Luisa . |
| 12 | I felt rather sorry for piers Gaveston . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I felt terribly sorry for Kathy . |
| 14 | Regarding another feature ( AMNESTY , June/July ) — another excellent issue , by the way , as usual — I felt very much for David Bull in view of the rockets he collected over the India fundraising appeal . |
| 15 | I felt so sorry for Christine . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt so sorry for Lilian . |
| 17 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 18 | When I was about nine I grew positively hungry for poetry . |
| 19 | I think , I think particularly important for Whitchurch , in keeping up the er , degree of confidence in Whitchurch that people will actually , er , are , are , willing and able and prepared to exist in the area . |
| 20 | He said I have n't those for years ! |