Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when I favour pay for ‘ childcare ’ I mean the day-to-day domestic care of people who need it ( obviously I would include adults too infirm to care for themselves ) . |
| 2 | only insure our own league and so it , I mean insured for major contingencies and that |
| 3 | I mean waiting for me ? ’ |
| 4 | While I contemplate screaming for mercy . ) |
| 5 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 6 | I intend to live for ever . |
| 7 | ‘ It means , simply , that I intend to look for another job . ’ |
| 8 | As I say I think I 'll sum up and have a vote , and then I intend to break for lunch on conclusion of this item . |
| 9 | Facing the loathsome rat-men I tend to opt for a defensive strategy and try and inflict as many casualties as possible at long range . |
| 10 | Its use is very simple — you tell the manager which cells hold the values you want to change , and they 're added to the scenario , which you name ( I tend to go for Disaster , Real and Brill — all self explanatory ) . |
| 11 | Certain combinations of landscape elements that I tend to search for were in short supply . |
| 12 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 13 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Blake , I want to apologise for — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If so , I want to apologise for my timing . |
| 16 | And he was so happy that he said to his mother one day , mother I want to live for ever . |
| 17 | I want to live for ever t said the boy . |
| 18 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 19 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 20 | I want to arrange for my body to be closed up in a transparent plastic parallelepiped ’ . |
| 21 | Do n't you think it 's time I was allowed to decide what I want to wear for myself ? ’ |
| 22 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 23 | " Yes , it is , Butterworth , Clibber , it 's not that I doubt you , but I want to see for myself . |
| 24 | But while the opportunity is there , I want to go for it . ’ |
| 25 | Heinzer , the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team , exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly — ‘ I want to go for the big wins ’ — won the first race . |
| 26 | ‘ Four wins from nine games would probably earn us a play-off place but I want to go for the No.2 spot . |
| 27 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 28 | I want to push for a win if I can . ’ |
| 29 | But strong though that thrust is , it is not rescue in that sense that I want to argue for here . |
| 30 | It was over finance in the end , but that 's all I want to say for now on that matter . |