Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 2 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 3 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 4 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 5 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 6 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 7 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 8 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 9 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 10 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 11 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 12 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 13 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 14 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 15 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 16 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 17 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 18 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 19 | I settled in for a relaxed , warm overview on the world high up in the comfy cab . |
| 20 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 21 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 22 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 23 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 24 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 25 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 26 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 27 | I went up for a closer look . |
| 28 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 29 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 30 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |