Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 2 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 3 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 4 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 14 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 15 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 16 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |