Example sentences of "i [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 3 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 4 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 5 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 6 | ‘ Nor was I hinting for a guided tour . |
| 7 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 8 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
| 9 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 10 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 11 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 12 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | By now some may well be asking ‘ Where can I look for a spiritual director ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I took out my mortgage with the Halifax , I plumped for a fixed rate . |
| 19 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 20 | I worked for a photographic company |
| 21 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 22 | I guess for a true human you 've reached a decent age . ’ |
| 23 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 24 | I settled for a beautiful Waterford Crystal clock as my leaving present from friends and colleagues throughout the Group . |
| 25 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 26 | I meditated for a few seconds , concentrating on my breathing , immediately aware of how shallow it was . |
| 27 | no , well I would n't mind going there , but , I meant for a first holiday , a little holiday I mean you enjoyed that did last April did n't you ? |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 30 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |