Example sentences of "i [verb] for a [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 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Nor was I hinting for a guided tour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | By now some may well be asking ‘ Where can I look for a spiritual director ? |
| 12 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 13 | When I took out my mortgage with the Halifax , I plumped for a fixed rate . |
| 14 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 15 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 16 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 17 | I guess for a true human you 've reached a decent age . ’ |
| 18 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 19 | I settled for a beautiful Waterford Crystal clock as my leaving present from friends and colleagues throughout the Group . |
| 20 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 21 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 22 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 23 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 24 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 25 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 26 | Subject : I go for a good win |
| 27 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 28 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 29 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 30 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |