Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] 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 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 6 | I had hoped for weeping willows , cedars of Lebanon , Lombardy poplars , seaweeds , perhaps deer antlers . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |