Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 2 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 3 | ‘ But , I once played for Clandeboye as a 17-year-old in the All Ireland semi-finals of the Jimmy Bruen Foursomes , beaten in the semi-finals by Galway at Lahinch . |
| 4 | It was in a little book I once got for Christmas called Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures . |
| 5 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 6 | I remember being unable to connect those grainy breasts and pubic hair with anything in my own life — flesh , for instance — but the image gave me a mysterious frisson which I mistakenly took for sex . |
| 7 | I also asked for government accounts , and was given the summary of estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1991-2 . |
| 8 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 9 | When I came to the Cotswolds and looked for a studio , before I even looked for house , I found a great barn , a wonderful old building , except that it was cathedral-like and freezing cold in the winter . |
| 10 | I had a phobia about going to the dentist , and the doctor wanted to give me tranquillizers but I did n't want to take them , so I actually went for hypnotherapy which helped . |
| 11 | Returning to camp in the evenings , I occasionally hunted for bushbuck in the forest . |
| 12 | Since then he has graduated to writing sequels to E.F.Benson 's Lucia novels , a book with the good title of Expecting Someone Taller ( which I must read sometime ) and another with the awful title of Who 's Afraid of Beowulf ? ( which I recently read for amusement , without success ) . |