Example sentences of "i [verb] for [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time I asked for Nurse Sally , the hyperactive Mrs Cody 's minder . |
| 2 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 3 | I mean for example hospitals and nursing homes , we have a purely tenuous control over , whereas we have a very rigid control over a signal box on a railway . |
| 4 | You know I mean , alright y you wan na sell your house and everything , but I mean for goodness sake , I mean ! |
| 5 | Personnel uses a lot I mean for career shows and open days |
| 6 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 7 | I tried for bail time and time again , but it just was n't on . |
| 8 | If you sign the document in your own home , as you would do with a doorstep salesman , er then the law does give you a chance to change your mind , although I hope for goodness sake you would all be very wary about signing any kind of legal document thrust under your nose from a doorstep salesman . |
| 9 | I copped for mine mid-week , always in defence of my Mother . |
| 10 | I look for Rice Krispies . |
| 11 | And y you 're quite right we actually do n't have a list of things , particularly I suspect for employment officers . |
| 12 | I do not wish to use underground filtration — is this OK , and if so , what should I use for tank substrate — just sand ? |
| 13 | It does sound quite good if you give them , I suppose for math tuition probably sat twenty five to . |
| 14 | No , I went for contact lenses , he , he just said look , there are lots of ones on the , the market , but I suggest you have these , bloody shape of them , |
| 15 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
| 16 | Er , I think for management purposes and for presentation purposes , we will erm , presentation but certainly in terms of our accounts erm , we have no option but to exempt the giving interest receivable but to erm , impress you with the modesty of our , of our interest and therefore how good our interest cover is . |
| 17 | I think for home games it has to be 4–4-2 . |
| 18 | But I think for employment officers , this would be really useful in the actual development . |
| 19 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 20 | Yes in fact , to be perfectly honest with you the relationship is a bit more than she wants Ron is a bit of a pain I told him over and over again not to push his luck , I said for goodness sake , Ron , be grateful for what you 've got apparently she does n't like to make love with the lights on I said well if that 's what she does n't like that 's what she does n't like , you 're not going to change a woman of sixty eight ! |
| 21 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 22 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 23 | On the way to the camp we passed a boulder where Tony and I competed for rock climbing idiot of the evening . |
| 24 | I work for Team Sport Scotland and part of my reignement is erm coordinator for women and girl 's football and I find that with the equal opportunities policies of many of the education regions now that more football is being played in primary and in secondary school and the district councils I go to visit I would say that the majority of them are definitely wanting to put money into promoting girl 's and women 's football . |