Example sentences of "i [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 3 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 4 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 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 first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 12 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 13 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 14 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 15 | Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good . |
| 16 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 17 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 18 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 23 | ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 26 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 29 | So what guidance can I give for the actual writing of the crime short story ? |
| 30 | 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 . |