Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 2 | And I thought for fuck 's sake , and he is like that , his mum as well is like that . |
| 3 | And I left for work at about 8.30 . |
| 4 | At last I was able to speak to Judge Kerwin , and I asked for news of my family . |
| 5 | On the way to the camp we passed a boulder where Tony and I competed for rock climbing idiot of the evening . |
| 6 | I had just time to think what a help he was being when another boot landed in my guts and I gasped for air . |
| 7 | I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty . |
| 8 | And I shouted for daddy . |
| 9 | It was night now and I turned for home , an awestruck child again , but joyful in the new world of understanding that had supplanted the dark , African fears . |
| 10 | But I turned for home |