Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] i [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |
| 2 | Some nerve , and of course I went for it . |
| 3 | On the other hand , of course I ask for as much as I can get . ‘ |
| 4 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 5 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 6 | Of course I feel for him . |
| 7 | I tipped Arsenal for the championship at the start of the season and that 's the measure of respect I have for them because they are so resolute . |
| 8 | I make a determined effort to rummage around in the jumble of our years together for some of the intensity of feeling I had for her . |
| 9 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't understand the kind of love I have for this great country we live in . |
| 11 | Largely out of a sense of duty I search for connexions between the two interests , between the two kinds of female body . |
| 12 | I did hear a rumour that the type of muzzle I have for my dog does n't meet safety standards . |
| 13 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 14 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 15 | Shortly before dawn I slept for a while on top of the wheelhouse . |
| 16 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |
| 17 | Wandering from house to house I asked for directions to the ruins of the palace . |
| 18 | When I saw L.R. today at finish I yelped for joy . |
| 19 | For filtration I looked for a Fluval 303 . |