Example sentences of "i [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 32 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 33 | When I come out into the light at the end , I look for the white van . |
| 34 | I arrived for the American premiere and these ghosts made no sense at all . |
| 35 | I consider the and figure should be discounted down to eighteen , which is the figure I adopt for the whole life multiplier . |
| 36 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 37 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
| 38 | By now some may well be asking ‘ Where can I look for a spiritual director ? |
| 39 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 40 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 41 | I am proud to confess that , in the 1970s , I campaigned for a national minimum wage because I felt that it was the right thing to do then . |
| 42 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 43 | I opt for the outside seat which in some models is adapted into a mini-swimming-pool . |
| 44 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 45 | When I took out my mortgage with the Halifax , I plumped for a fixed rate . |
| 46 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 47 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 48 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 49 | Counc tonight it was mentioned the actual the work of the Regional Health Authority and , again , I worked for the Regional Health Authority a long time ago . |
| 50 | Well I worked for the past two year really |
| 51 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 52 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 53 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 54 | I guess for a true human you 've reached a decent age . ’ |
| 55 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 56 | I suppose for the early settlers the smaller tarns such as those on Widdale , Baugh Fell and Whernside looked like tears on the face of the fell . |
| 57 | I settled for a beautiful Waterford Crystal clock as my leaving present from friends and colleagues throughout the Group . |
| 58 | ‘ I watched for every little sign of a rift between you both . |
| 59 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 60 | In the Annual Report two years ago , I called for the careful co-ordination of export support services from both private and public sector organisations . |