Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 2 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 3 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 4 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 5 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 6 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 7 | After positioning the wad in my cheek I sat around waiting for the hit , feeling smug with my new-found anthropological skills . |