Example sentences of "i [verb] be for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want is for the case to be closed . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ All I ask is for the manager to believe in me and to be wanted . |
| 3 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 4 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 5 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 8 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 9 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |