Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 2 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 3 | Facing the loathsome rat-men I tend to opt for a defensive strategy and try and inflict as many casualties as possible at long range . |
| 4 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 5 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 6 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 7 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 8 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 9 | I want to push for a win if I can . ’ |
| 10 | With my form filled in , I phoned : ‘ I want to come for a fortnight , but the problem is , I have a book to finish . |
| 11 | ‘ I like it here and I want to stay for a while . ’ |
| 12 | I want to consider for a moment the true price of coal . |
| 13 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 14 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 15 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 16 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 17 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 18 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 19 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 20 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 21 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 22 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 23 | After three hours of continuous nibbling it seemed , I will confess , rather on the acid and insubstantial side , and I began to yearn for a bowl of pasta . |
| 24 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 25 | I 'm not that way inclined , I like to go for a walk and have the fresh air on me and everything . |
| 26 | Um and erm I was just wondering y'know kind of erm often when I write questionnaires I like to go for a sort of more kind of rather less declarative statements . |
| 27 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 28 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 29 | I decided to go for a walk westward along the side of the fjord . |
| 30 | I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like . |