Example sentences of "i [vb past] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 2 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 3 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 4 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 5 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 6 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 7 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 8 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 9 | When I took out my mortgage with the Halifax , I plumped for a fixed rate . |
| 10 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 11 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 12 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 13 | I settled for a beautiful Waterford Crystal clock as my leaving present from friends and colleagues throughout the Group . |
| 14 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 15 | I meditated for a few seconds , concentrating on my breathing , immediately aware of how shallow it was . |
| 16 | no , well I would n't mind going there , but , I meant for a first holiday , a little holiday I mean you enjoyed that did last April did n't you ? |
| 17 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 18 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 19 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 20 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 21 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 22 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 23 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 24 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 25 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 26 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 27 | The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 . |
| 28 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 29 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |
| 30 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |