Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I longed for this , inspired by the word ‘ flatter . ’ |
| 2 | How I longed for a Smith & Wesson . |
| 3 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 4 | How I had despised his brutishness then , and how I longed for his toughness , his uncomplicated , animal certainty now . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Guy , if you only knew how I longed for you , how I dreamed that one day you would rescue me . ’ |
| 6 | It was only when I went for my yearly check-up that I was told I had endometriosis . |
| 7 | It was when I went for a walk to our old camp . |
| 8 | This was when I learnt for the first time how experts conducted dealing for Jim came from a family of dealers . |
| 9 | At the time ( I know it was seven years ago because that 's when I left for Edmonton where I met Michael ) I would always make sure I read the foreign page to see what was happening in Danu . |
| 10 | Now the other day when I rung for appointment |
| 11 | If sometimes , when I canvassed for other people at elections , addressed envelopes , drafted manifestos , I felt like an alcoholic sneaking a secret drink , this was a purely subjective analogy . |
| 12 | ‘ The things I 've seen in them vats when I worked for the brewery . ’ |
| 13 | I 've scored two hundreds against Worcestershire this season , and the one in May , when I batted for more than four hours and helped save the match , gave more satisfaction than that one in 57 minutes . ’ |
| 14 | Next came Sewells Furniture Store and adjoining this was Mr. Tommy Sparks where I went for haircuts for over forty years . |
| 15 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 16 | Queen Victoria had a brass plaque put up in his memory in St George 's Chapel at Windsor , where I searched for it and found it while I was at Eton . |
| 17 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 18 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 19 | In Los Angeles , where I lectured for a living , I pursued my fascination for the harmonic patterns and golden-mean ratios which run so consistently through the sacred art , music and architecture of both Western and oriental mystical traditions . |
| 20 | I used to run an English and Scottish dancing class at the old high school in Cleveland Avenue , before it became Hummersknot School in 1955 where I worked for 22 years part-time , teaching dance . |
| 21 | That is why I sent for you , to be truthful . |
| 22 | Leith was still gasping at that when he added , ‘ To get to the reason why I sent for you — ’ |
| 23 | A lot of people wonder why I opted for hairdressing as they do n't realise how much goes into the job . |
| 24 | ‘ You have n't even asked me directly why I went for a walk with Flo this evening , for instance . |
| 25 | Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either . |
| 26 | They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ? |
| 27 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 28 | Why I headed for Basra I do not know . |