Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 2 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 3 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 5 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 6 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 7 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 8 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 9 | I had hoped for weeping willows , cedars of Lebanon , Lombardy poplars , seaweeds , perhaps deer antlers . |
| 10 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him how I had to go for special lessons and how other kids would sometimes laugh or pick on me . |
| 12 | My breath smoked and I began to feel the wind-chill even through my sailing jersey and the special anorak I had bought for southern latitudes . |
| 13 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |