Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 2 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 3 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 4 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 5 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 6 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 7 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 8 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 9 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 10 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 11 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 12 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 13 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 14 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 15 | I 've wanted it for a very long time , and it will happen , I promise , but not now , not yet . ’ |
| 16 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 17 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 18 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 19 | Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid . |
| 20 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 21 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 22 | I 've swapped it for a couple of weeks . |
| 23 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 24 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 25 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 26 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 27 | I 'm not having one I 've had mine for the month . |
| 28 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 29 | I 've rented it for a fortnight . |
| 30 | I 've got ours for the so that 's one fifty two and how much are these ? |