Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told Glentoran manager Rob Strain that I intend to train hard for three weeks and maybe play a couple of reserve games . |
| 2 | But I want to get there for nine . |
| 3 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 4 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 5 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |
| 6 | Now for the that out and I 'll see what I 've written down for this Oh yeah er see Sue lost it erm well it 's a canine meaning , you know , the rose erm the dog rose . |
| 7 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 8 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 9 | I 've worked hard for this house over the past three years . |
| 10 | Yeah that 's what I 've come in for twenty for . |
| 11 | After my first six months as Director of South East Arts , I 've prepared an interim report with five main topics , which I wish to put forward for public consideration , and if anybody has any comments to make perhaps they 'd let me know . |
| 12 | I need to sit down for three minutes or , me back 'll snap in two . |
| 13 | The week after next I have to go away for two weeks . ’ |
| 14 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 15 | I have lived here for 40 years and no one ever bothered anyone . |
| 16 | I have lived here for twenty years . |
| 17 | I have lived there for fifteen years , but the moment I leave I feel it closing the doors on me with indifference . |
| 18 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |