Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 3 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 4 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 5 | I want to push for a win if I can . ’ |
| 6 | With my form filled in , I phoned : ‘ I want to come for a fortnight , but the problem is , I have a book to finish . |
| 7 | ‘ I like it here and I want to stay for a while . ’ |
| 8 | I want to consider for a moment the true price of coal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm not that way inclined , I like to go for a walk and have the fresh air on me and everything . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | It 's a lazy Saturday and I decide to go for a walk in Cwm Idwal . |
| 14 | I try walking for a bit with my eyes closed proper , but I keep having to open them cos I 'm scared I 'm going to bump into summat . |
| 15 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |
| 16 | Needs some help and gets it from Thomson who started this move off and lifted in towards Agnew , Cooper clears it still has n't gone out and er Phillips just prevented it I think going for a corner , yes it 's a throw . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've sent for a breakdown lorry-from a garage , so we may be able to salvage the car before it goes right under . ’ |
| 18 | I 've fallen for a boy who goes to the same school as me , but is two years younger than I am . |
| 19 | I 've asked for a |
| 20 | I 've advertised for a replacement , but I have n't filled the job yet . |
| 21 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 22 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 24 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 25 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 26 | ‘ That was the hardest training I 've done for a year , ’ he said . |
| 27 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 29 | Why it is , it 's very , very , very wrong , say we pay all year round for that , I 've paid for a year for my ticket |
| 30 | But when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect all the pieces that I 've paid for . |