Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 2 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 3 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 4 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 5 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 6 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 7 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 12 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 13 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 14 | I went looking for a quiet place to sit — while gazing with interest at the multi armed , three-breasted Salmo'kkan dancers being sinuous on a mini-stage when I was frozen in mid stride |
| 15 | ‘ I went to look for a new car and the Lord said to me , ‘ Richie , you buy this car . |
| 16 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 17 | I said go for the obvious one Brazil question seventeen , the Pyrenees mountain range lies between which two countries ? |
| 18 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 21 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 22 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 25 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 26 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 27 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 28 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |