Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.

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1 Well then I must have cried for two hours and
2 Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 .
3 The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say .
4 I 'd like to work for one of the building societies and get a cheap mortgage .
5 I 'd like to play for one of the glamour clubs like Wigan or Leeds and one day play at Wembley , ’ he said .
6 Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt .
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