Example sentences of "that i [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 2 | ‘ It means , simply , that I intend to look for another job . ’ |
| 3 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Do you really think that I 've waited for days and days for you to come back here , just to play bloody party games ? |
| 5 | ‘ When I was going fast , I pictured something that I 've pictured for years and yet never noticed . |
| 6 | Well erm take it from me that I 've worked for for major American corporates and one major British corporate and er there is still something that you may miss all right . |
| 7 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 8 | But when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect all the pieces that I 've paid for . |
| 9 | my kids have n't had any food all weekend that I 've paid for because you did n't send me my giro , they 've had their meals because they 've been round there at grandma 's , but I 'm not telling you that , yeah , you know . |
| 10 | Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |
| 11 | ‘ I have two American Standard Strats that I 've had for about four years , one with Lace Sensors , the other with DiMarzios . |
| 12 | The friends that I 've had for over 20 years are ones I can rely on and who do n't ‘ take ’ all the time . |
| 13 | All the replies got eleven or so replies that I 've had for that questionnaire . |
| 14 | well this case I 'm afraid does n't lend itself to short entirely impossible , er Mr maybe have to say erm will lead to the questions and then for example spent er a long time on questions this afternoon that I 've had for you Mr |
| 15 | That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years |
| 16 | and er , it helps me to , it 's only a hobby , you know , but er , it 's one that I 've had for donkey years , I want to er keep going with it as long as I can |
| 17 | Yeah , well erm , see I advertised it all round cafe as well that I 'd sent for it as well . |
| 18 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |
| 19 | He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal . |
| 20 | Certain combinations of landscape elements that I tend to search for were in short supply . |
| 21 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 22 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 23 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 24 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 25 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 26 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 27 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 28 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 29 | And then it just became a drug that I had to take for every day use . |
| 30 | Major Hal , who met us on arrival , insisted that I had qualified for membership in the ‘ Short-Snorters ’ Club ’ . |