Example sentences of "i [verb] for [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 2 | I asked for my ham-and-tomato sandwich . |
| 3 | Berenice has high blood-pressure ; she has to remain in hospital because of stress , or she will miscarry , and if that happens I fear for her mental health . ’ |
| 4 | I long for his unwashed eyes . |
| 5 | And I long for your gentle touch , |
| 6 | This is my son and I apologise for his bad manners . |
| 7 | ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams . |
| 8 | Incidentally , I listen for my own information and education to the early recordings of the Busch quartet to get the measure of what can be achieved , and what pianissimo and dolce really mean . |
| 9 | Even afterwards , when I was a teenager , I paid for my bad timing , coming just too early to enjoy the fun and freedom that waited round the corner . |
| 10 | I run for my own satisfaction really . |
| 11 | Others I like for their sheer messiness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How could I dictate to some amanuensis all the love I feel for my darling Lily , the loveliest flower … . |
| 14 | I pay for my own ribbons and object to this rape of my printer . |
| 15 | I enjoy nature and long country walks , and I cheer-lead for my local basketball team . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been out on the West Coast where everything 's mellow and laid-back , ’ says Julian , when I ask for his first impressions of NYC . |
| 17 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 18 | I went for my first visit to the therapist feeling panicky , nervous , hopeful and depressed . |
| 19 | ‘ I told you : I went for my usual run . |
| 20 | ‘ So when I went for my regular eye check-up I had no idea that anything was wrong . |
| 21 | It was only when I went for my yearly check-up that I was told I had endometriosis . |
| 22 | However , to go on justifying ends by further ends will involve me in an infinite regress unless I arrive at a terminus in something that I do for its own sake . |
| 23 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 24 | I call for his immediate resignation and the transfer of power to a collective body , the Council of the Federation … |
| 25 | I voted for my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay in 1983 in Battersea . |
| 26 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 27 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 28 | When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . |
| 29 | Everything and everyone is drained of value except as means to my own dwindling and at last exclusively pre-human ends , and I myself am equally a means in the eyes of everyone else , as I am forced to recognize whenever an automaton interacting with me reaches for its own pocket computer . |
| 30 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |