Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were to ask you for your address , what would you do ? |
| 2 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 3 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
| 4 | And it ended up I was buying it for less money than what I was paying monthly for rent . |
| 5 | Erm I 'm not , well I was boiling it for this |
| 6 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 7 | that 's why I was asking them for , I just want to make it plain my Lord |
| 8 | If I 'm caught , I 'll say I was lifting her for myself . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well — I was thanking Him for you . |
| 10 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 11 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 12 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 13 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 14 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |