Example sentences of "i [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | one Friday , having done my weekend cleaning and baked a batch of bread during the day , I hoped for a good night 's rest , but I scarcely had retired before my labour began . |
| 62 | As a development geneticist , I hoped for a personal synthesis of the subject viewed from a different perspective . |
| 63 | Rather , I settle for a balanced , rounded style of dressing most of the time , more Dougie Heywood than Tommy Nutter . |
| 64 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 65 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 66 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 67 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 68 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 69 | 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 . |
| 70 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
| 71 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 72 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 73 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 74 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 75 | In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay . |
| 76 | Often he sang a Livornese song with the words : ‘ I work for a hundred lire a month . |
| 77 | I work for a national voluntary youth work agency . |
| 78 | I work for a large cosmetic surgery company in England |
| 79 | Now I work for a local authority so I 've got a big interest in this , but I 've also been involved as John will remember in a strike . |
| 80 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 81 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 82 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 83 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 84 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 85 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 86 | So did I. He had me figured for a working stiff out to do the day 's chores , and he was n't going to bother an upright member of the community . |
| 87 | Any law against me stopping for a quiet smoke ? ’ |
| 88 | It makes me long for a complete collection so that I might read on , especially the verse you mention but do not quote . |