Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 2 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 3 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 4 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 5 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 6 | I stand here for the President , and there is no spirit good or bad who will hinder me . |
| 7 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 8 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 9 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 10 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 11 | They said twelve , but I think really for the humour alone they needed to be about fifteen or sixteen because they did n't understand it . |
| 12 | There 's a sort of metal fence I can sit on , so I rest there for a bit and watch the ducks and that . |
| 13 | I rummage furiously for a freebie hotel mini-shampoo bottle with a screw-on lid the size of a marble . |