Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | I want to live with him for ever and ever ! ’ |
2 | IN this chapter I want to search with you for the spirit of place , to conjure up the spirit that will give life and breath to descriptions of places . |
3 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
4 | And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’ |
5 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
6 | ‘ I 've lived with it for long enough , but I did n't get away with it this year and I 'm running out of time , ’ said the 26-year-old European champion , who needed a pain-killing injection before the race . |
7 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
8 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |
9 | I 've finished with him for ever . |
10 | I 've worked with him for nearly two years . |
11 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
12 | he said , I find mine just the same , I 've dealt with them for years but as soon you want anything although , I must say , with the break in we 've got on alright did n't we ? |
13 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
14 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
15 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
16 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
17 | The balance I have put towards something for us both — a new continental quilt for our bed here — and I got a king sized one , as JOHN always seems to get it all , but this may be big enough to let me hang on to my side . |