Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I argued passionately for a top higher band .
2 And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again .
3 Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have .
4 And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome .
5 Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 .
6 I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me .
7 I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock .
8 I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle .
9 In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor .
10 I went yesterday for the first time .
11 During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children .
12 And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ?
13 One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’
14 Primarily , I greatly respected the culture and customs of the people and , as a western woman , although free to dress in my own cultural fashion , I dressed respectfully for an Islamic country and covered my hair , arms and legs and wore loose fitting clothes , so I felt comfortable drawing and was protected from the heat of the sun .
15 And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it .
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