Example sentences of "i [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 3 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 4 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 5 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 6 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 7 | ‘ Nor was I hinting for a guided tour . |
| 8 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 9 | I mean for every great Cure record you get an inferior follow-up with all the same ingredients but without the spark . |
| 10 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 11 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 12 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 13 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 14 | This afternoon , the trial was halted when the Judge , Mr. Justice Auld , called in the jury after several hours of legal argument and told them , ’ I apologise for the long delay . |
| 15 | ‘ Monsieur Dacourt , ’ Francis announced in perfect English , ‘ I apologise for the tardy arrival and abrupt interruption of your eloquent speech by Akim and his cats . |
| 16 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 17 | I headed for the white gleam of a village in the distance and was grateful to find that the one and only store sold iced drinks . |
| 18 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 19 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 20 | So what guidance can I give for the actual writing of the crime short story ? |
| 21 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 22 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 23 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 24 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 25 | I wait for the inevitable question . |
| 26 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 27 | When I come out into the light at the end , I look for the white van . |
| 28 | I arrived for the American premiere and these ghosts made no sense at all . |
| 29 | I consider the and figure should be discounted down to eighteen , which is the figure I adopt for the whole life multiplier . |
| 30 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |