Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 2 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 3 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 4 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 5 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 6 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 7 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 8 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 9 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 10 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 11 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 12 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 13 | ‘ May I stay here for a pot of tea ? ’ |
| 14 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 15 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 16 | I came here for the history . |
| 17 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 18 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 19 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 21 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 22 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 23 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 24 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 25 | I finned madly for the surface , and was told off very severely for making an ascent like a pricked balloon . |
| 26 | I stand here for the President , and there is no spirit good or bad who will hinder me . |
| 27 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 28 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 29 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 30 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |