Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] for a " in BNC.

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1 Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’
2 so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley
3 Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed .
4 So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’
5 the very next day anyway I sent for a doctor
6 Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day .
7 It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee .
8 So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water .
9 ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’
10 Then I went for a walk with Mr Sargent . ’
11 First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job …
12 I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear .
13 How I longed for a Smith & Wesson .
14 actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something .
15 Instead I retreated for a caffeine hit to Reception where Beverly advised me : ‘ Divorce her .
16 It was when I went for a walk to our old camp .
17 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 .
18 ‘ You have n't even asked me directly why I went for a walk with Flo this evening , for instance .
19 They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ?
20 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
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