Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 2 | I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best . |
| 3 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 4 | I also stayed for the required time that politeness dictates . |
| 5 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 6 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 7 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 8 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I strongly suspected for a long time that there were other men . |
| 10 | I recently applied for a home-improvement loan that would raise my present mortgage above the building society 's original valuation of the property . |