Example sentences of "i [verb] for [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I long for his unwashed eyes . |
| 2 | This is my son and I apologise for his bad manners . |
| 3 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |
| 4 | Apart from words denoting motion or process , which always have me reaching for my inverted commas ( ‘ give ’ , ‘ fall ’ , ‘ eat ’ , ‘ defecate ’ ) , the written language makes plain sense , unlike the spoken . |
| 5 | If people hear about the boy , he thought , perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep . |