Example sentences of "i [verb] for [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HIGH jinks in the Manpower Services Commission , I reckoned for one gleeful moment . |
| 2 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 3 | I resist for two good reasons — a ) they do n't suit me , and b ) I 'm the wrong age for them . |
| 4 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Together with my improving physical state it was not long before I was engaged in a voluntary capacity as business counsellor with the local Business Development Venture for which I served for five absorbing years quite happily . ’ |
| 6 | I thought for one hopeful minute you were gon na wind up then . |