Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 2 | I 've forgotten my troubles ; now I want to climb just for the good performance itself . |
| 3 | I 've radioed in for the Social Services , they 'll find them some alternative accommodation . |
| 4 | Anyway , I 've finished here for the present . ’ |
| 5 | I 've worked only for the common good , humbly trying to advance knowledge … ’ |
| 6 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 7 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't notice you laughing when I have to go away for the night . |
| 9 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 10 | The following description of the scientific method by a twentieth-century economist conforms closely to the naive inductivist account of science as I have described it , and indicates that it is not a position that I have invented solely for the purpose of criticizing it . |
| 11 | ‘ And if I have to pay up for the Mercedes at £1 a week for the rest of my life then that 's what I will do . ’ |
| 12 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |