Example sentences of "and i [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had my old measurements and I apologised for all that I was doing to his calculations . |
| 2 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 3 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 4 | And I applied for that job , and I got it . |
| 5 | It was pure showbiz , and I noted for later that Allan 's shorts , which were similar to those that some Americans and Italians were wearing , had played a not inconsiderable part . |
| 6 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 7 | I am sure de Macon had his hand on his dagger hilt and I realised for all they knew I could be a member of the Luciferi . |
| 8 | And erm then after erm I had done my training as nun , I did teacher training , and I taught for twenty years , before becoming a social worker . |
| 9 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 10 | But I move my motion , and I ask for those in favour to please show |
| 11 | Er i it was insulting to you and I apologize for that . |
| 12 | Erm , the one , two , three and four refer to quarters , it seems a strange way to do it , and I apologize for that . |
| 13 | I would need to read the whole of that alarming corpus over again before I was quite sure of it , and I apologize for this extra quarter of an hour . |
| 14 | Arthur and I went for long walks — and that little village was the best place in the world . |
| 15 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 16 | Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it . |
| 17 | Well it should be in the file and I asked for this and keep it before me when a scheme is set up , A we have a map which I must have sent out letters , |
| 18 | Erm the , on appendix five and annexe A is of course is of course an annexe to it and I apologise for this . |
| 19 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 20 | The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things . |
| 21 | And I settled for that . |
| 22 | ‘ If by the other , my lady , you refer to the regard the prince and I have for each other , pray be assured it is not pain I feel — but joy , deep joy . |
| 23 | and I think for four hundred and eighty quid I could get a very nice real computer . |
| 24 | I want people to be able to listen to the records over and over again and I think for that to happen you have to create a depth of information that 's rock solid . |
| 25 | And I think for many of you in this room that 'll be the nearest Consumer Advice Centre to where you live . |
| 26 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 27 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 28 | The home manual school panel meeting erm on erm for sometime now and I think for those people who do n't get to see the government . |
| 29 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 30 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |