Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got asked about it for months . |
| 2 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 3 | I 'd lived with them for a while . |
| 4 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 5 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 7 | yeah , yeah I mean I 'd thought about it for ours |
| 8 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 9 | I offered to go with her for company and safety really , since it was dangerous to go out alone in conditions like that . |
| 10 | Yeah I know I know it 's got a lot of milk in and I did ask for it for you , but she still give me one like that . |
| 11 | I had relied on her for support of every kind , long after I was grown-up . |
| 12 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 13 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ Some of the happiest are of playing the piano , after I had worked on something for hours , then suddenly it came … it could be the most wonderful thing . |
| 15 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 16 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 17 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |