Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 5 | By now it has sold out , so I opt for a gin and tonic , at a price commensurate with a drink at the Ritz . |
| 6 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 7 | To make this even more ridiculous , I decided to select the most unlikely container I could think of , so I opted for a supermarket plastic carrier bag . |
| 8 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 9 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 10 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
| 11 | I was awake early , so I went for a swim . |
| 12 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 13 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 14 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
| 15 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
| 16 | Fortunately we had an alternative target so I asked for a course . |
| 17 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 18 | We were nearing the camp , so I aimed for the ruts in the track and put my foot down . |
| 19 | 11.01am : Pavement feels softer than usual , so I lie for a while before crawling to the ‘ Suck and Syphon ’ , Editor 's favourite pub . |
| 20 | I tend not to read long interviews with top celebs , as much to avoid discovering that they are dickheads as anything else , so I look for the news , gossip and reviews . |
| 21 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 22 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 23 | ‘ Do you mind if I go for a swim ? ’ |
| 24 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 25 | When I was sure he was alone , I followed him into the bank and while he queued I read a leaflet to see if I qualified for a home mortgage . |
| 26 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 27 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 28 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 29 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 30 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |