Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 2 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 3 | I 'd began hunting for data on phetam to see if it really was valuable as the Ardakkeans claimed , and if so , why . |
| 4 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 5 | I did n't know how long I 'd wasted looking for the compass or how long I 'd knelt in capitulation . |
| 6 | But generally I saw more living conditions later on , er when er I started rent collecting for the council . |
| 7 | I managed to stop drinking for four months : I kept a bottle in the house but I never touched it . |
| 8 | I did stop smoking for three months and then with everyone else around us , I mean I was putting on weight and then I went back to smoking . |
| 9 | So , I , cos I had to do talking for her and all ! |
| 10 | He 'd give me money to buy clothes , but I had to keep asking for it . |