Example sentences of "i have [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
2 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
3 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
5 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
6 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
7 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
8 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
9 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
10 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
11 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
12 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
13 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
14 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
15 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
16 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
17 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
18 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
19 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
20 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
21 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
22 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
23 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
24 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
25 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
26 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
27 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
28 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
29 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
30 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |