Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 2 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 3 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 4 | I came here for the history . |
| 5 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 6 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 7 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 8 | I finned madly for the surface , and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon . |
| 9 | ‘ You will perhaps readily object , ‘ I prayed earnestly for the life of the deceased . |
| 10 | For many months I watched carefully for the smoke from fires , but I did n't see anything . |
| 11 | In the meantime , as I recall , er I I asked him who he was and I asked his wife who he was because he had asked what we were doing in his house and when he said his house , I thought then for the first time that perhaps this was n't who er we had on the floor . |
| 12 | And I went right for the flag . |
| 13 | Erm no I went away for the weekend this weekend and er made four ta tapes of me and Frank in the car driving around from er we went to erm Oxford first then we went to Bournemouth , then we went to Winchester and then we went to Cheltenham , . |
| 14 | but I went straight for the directory . |
| 15 | I went home for the summer holidays weighing seven stone six pounds . |
| 16 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 17 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 18 | I went there for the opening and I 'm really proud to be associated with water because I think it 's I think it 's a wonderful piece of engineering and excellent . |
| 19 | I went there for the clothing , because Antoinette wanted me to take photographs . |
| 20 | One company director — then unconverted — whom I took there for the first time one Tuesday had this reaction : ‘ All my life I have been longing without knowing it to hear preaching like this . ’ |
| 21 | Korg M1 synthesiser ‘ A good keyboard which I bought mainly for the piano sound . |
| 22 | I ate nothing until the day arrived , and all morning I waited impatiently for the coach . |
| 23 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 24 | I stayed there for the duration to try and prove to myself that I was able to do it . |