Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 2 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 3 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 4 | I had hoped for weeping willows , cedars of Lebanon , Lombardy poplars , seaweeds , perhaps deer antlers . |
| 5 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 6 | My breath smoked and I began to feel the wind-chill even through my sailing jersey and the special anorak I had bought for southern latitudes . |
| 7 | To the west , I 've gone for hot reds , yellows and oranges , planting a red-stemmed Cornus alba ‘ Westonbirt ’ to make a fiery contrast with the golden conifer . |
| 8 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 9 | And I have g I have paid for English lights just for the sake of a week |