Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only fill them in that I know for a fact . |
| 2 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 3 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 4 | Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ? |
| 5 | In 1979 I interviewed for the first ( and last ) time the newly elected Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 6 | In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay . |
| 7 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 8 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 9 | Bit too complicated I fear for a terrace chant … still — I like it ! ! |
| 10 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 11 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 12 | Their result is the first I look for every week , and I get home as often as I can . |
| 13 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |
| 14 | And then when I was about seven I went for an eye test where you get one of those cards with all the dots on , and , you 're supposed to see fifty-seven but I could only see twenty-seven . |
| 15 | On the doorstep his final words to the last guest to leave were , ‘ You must vote for me when next I apply for a Cambridge professorship ’ . |
| 16 | It is not true I married for a red corduroy jacket belonging to my wife 's father ; but there is no denying he did pass it on to me , as a sort of dowry I believe . |