Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish . |
| 2 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 3 | I 've got that targeted I think for an Easter job . |
| 4 | And if you 're imagining I pine for the delights of the conjugal bed now my wife 's left me , you 're a bit off-beam there , too . |
| 5 | My Lord this is course made I apologise for the of authority to support it . |
| 6 | I suppose I go for the dangerous types — the ones who look almost but not quite entirely wholesome . |
| 7 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 8 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 9 | I think I talk for the whole of when I say this , erm , the disgusting way that Borough Council are doing grass cutting . |
| 10 | have I time for a scrub or what ? |
| 11 | ‘ Hugh Wilkinson , who owns the music shop in Cullybackey where I got my accordion , suggested I try for the part , ’ said Kara . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't say I care for the idea of you two discussing me behind my back , but if you must know I was suffering from reaction , ’ said Leonora with dignity . |
| 13 | Jean , we 'll go down to where 's the fifty P shop or something and buy some of those do , er cornflakes ' plates or something , say they 're gon na fill those other ones up that the man give us a mere seven , eight ones , only leaves us four ordinary , you see I know for a fact that Sally say he was caught |