Example sentences of "i [vb past] for a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied for a job and three people turned |
| 2 | I gabbled for a second as shock and rage choked my words . |
| 3 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 4 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 5 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 6 | ‘ I freelanced for a while and ended up doing a lot of work for the Bee Gees in Florida , for Andy Gibb in particular . |
| 7 | Rather than mount from the ground , which can take some young horses by surprise just when you do n't want to , I opted for a leg-up and repeated the walk , trot and half transitions . |
| 8 | At the top of the stairs I turned for a moment and found out . |
| 9 | ‘ I worked for a bit when I was about eighteen . |
| 10 | I called for a re-vote and therefore I insist that we have a re-vote . |
| 11 | I felt for a pulse but I could n't find one . ’ |
| 12 | I knew for a start that there were more than a million Japanese there . |
| 13 | We both smiled , and I knew for a fact that she was n't Daine . |
| 14 | I looked for a scraper but could n't see one . |
| 15 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
| 16 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 17 | I thought for a while that the information would just go on accumulating from here on in , but thank God it 's already begun dropping off . |
| 18 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 19 | But I thought for a girl that 's |
| 20 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 21 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought for a moment that you 'd run out on me . ’ |
| 23 | I thought for a moment that he was going to beat me . |
| 24 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 25 | " I went for a check-up but , in my heart of hearts , I recognised that it was an attack of panic more than anything else , " she remembers . |
| 26 | The last time I went for a smear and a blood pressure check and various things sh I , I said are you doing cholesterol checks ? |
| 27 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 28 | I waited for a while but he did n't show any sign of appearing so I went outside . |
| 29 | I waited for a day or so , expecting some sort of national protest . |
| 30 | How I longed for a Smith & Wesson . |