Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 2 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
| 3 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 4 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 5 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 6 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 8 | The organist and I finished more or less together and I turned to him for reassurance as I announced my next song : ‘ And now , ‘ ’ Summer Time' ’ . ' |
| 9 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 10 | I sympathised with her for , after all , Notts County was the oldest league club in the world , and this was the season when Tom Keetley scored a record thirty-nine goals and we came top of Third Division South . |
| 11 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 12 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 13 | Can you please let me know what the position is with regard to order number 026 that I placed with you for the above tape to run it on VAX 3500 running ULTRIX , at either 6250 or 1600 bpi ? ( ordered on 12 May ) |
| 14 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 15 | I talked to them for half an hour on maximum range and fuel economy . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 17 | The ground itself is not as harsh as the words I felt beneath me for that one curious moment at the Treasury . |
| 18 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 19 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 20 | I looked toward him for some answer to my curiosity but his eyes were expressionless . |
| 21 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 22 | I looked after him for a few days before he died . ’ |
| 23 | I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it . |
| 24 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 25 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 26 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |
| 27 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 28 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 29 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 30 | I fell through everybody for the report . |