Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 2 | Heinzer , the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team , exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly — ‘ I want to go for the big wins ’ — won the first race . |
| 3 | ‘ Four wins from nine games would probably earn us a play-off place but I want to go for the No.2 spot . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to fight for the world title and to do it against a fellow Brit would be just great . |
| 5 | I 've already made up my mind that I want to sign for the Blues . |
| 6 | But later he said : ‘ If the public thinks I deserve to fight for the title again and one of the champions would give me a title shot , I 'll come back . |
| 7 | I hope to arrange for the Broadcasting Committee to consider the issue at an early date . |
| 8 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 9 | I enjoy working for the agency . |
| 10 | I recall leading for the Opposition in the early 1970s on the Fair Trading Act 1973 . |
| 11 | ‘ I like to look for the distinctive features of a location , features that we can key into to get a synergy of strengths , ’ she says . |
| 12 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 13 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 14 | ‘ I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race . ’ |
| 15 | county and see whether the family wish currently if it would not benefit from er er being carried er in certain areas and I do apologise for the Chief Fire Officer if throw away to Martin er in any way being thought of as no regrets I am sure . |
| 16 | So I do apologise for the confusion . |
| 17 | So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 . |
| 18 | I do apologize for the delay . |
| 19 | I 've sent for the captain . |
| 20 | I 've sent for the priest . |
| 21 | I 've sent for the lad from the Upton manor , as I told Radulfus I would , and before Compline he 'll be here , and the truth will surely be out . |
| 22 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 23 | I 'm not going to go into any length about the community arts budget , that is one area of service provision that we feel , and I 've said for the last two years , does not provide value for money . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've volunteered for the Services . ’ |
| 25 | I 've volunteered for the Air Force . |
| 26 | I 've miss I 've missed for the last few weeks . |
| 27 | and er I 've asked for the er extra length one . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've suspected for the last two weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 30 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |