Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 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 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 6 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 7 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well I 've worked for the past two year really |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll cope , I expect , I 've coped for the past year … ’ |
| 19 | However , to pursue this would lead on to criticisms of inductivism that I have reserved for the next chapter . |
| 20 | In spite of the occupations I have followed for the last thirty years , shreds of science remain . |
| 21 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 22 | You will now appreciate the load I have carried for the greater part of my life . |
| 23 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 24 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |