Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I contemplate screaming for mercy . ) |
| 2 | As I say I think I 'll sum up and have a vote , and then I intend to break for lunch on conclusion of this item . |
| 3 | Its use is very simple — you tell the manager which cells hold the values you want to change , and they 're added to the scenario , which you name ( I tend to go for Disaster , Real and Brill — all self explanatory ) . |
| 4 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 5 | I stand gasping for breath , as I realise where I am : stuck on a strip of concrete railway within a pair of electric rails , twenty feet above the ground . |
| 6 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 7 | In the bedroom I get changed for work . |
| 8 | I remember coming for tea and er the table was where it is now I do n't know whether it was |
| 9 | Afterwards I continue to argue for rugby , feeling ever more like the devil 's advocate . |
| 10 | I do go for designer clothes most of the time , because they last longer and are a far better quality . |
| 11 | He he has said if I do go for maintenance he 'll deny that Ricky 's his . |
| 12 | I 've gone for quality service : if clients say jump , we jump . |
| 13 | That 's why I 've applied for school in September . |
| 14 | ‘ Just about everything I 've done for film and TV . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | ‘ I 've come for t'lot , Mrs Stringer ! ’ |
| 17 | Is that all the jam left I 've got for tea ? |
| 18 | ‘ Oz , ’ Joe interrupted , ‘ this is the only day in the year when I need to ask for help from my neighbours . |
| 19 | This latter alternative , the old route , is strongly to be recommended , however , the traveller being rewarded by a magnificent intimate view of a mountain of rare visual appeal , Ben Loyal , the first of the scenic highlights I have selected for inclusion in this book . |
| 20 | I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful . |
| 21 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 22 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 23 | I have read for review , but not usually in the end reviewed , not a few books where this seems to have occurred . |
| 24 | My discussions with the café owner have always been amiable and I have paid for car parking ( when asked ) and have gone about my business in an unobtrusive manner . |
| 25 | He declared ( 24 December 1956 ) : ‘ For 37 years I have worked for unity . |
| 26 | But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty . |
| 27 | In the following list , I have used for convenience the geographical zone numbers indicated in the map ( see end papers ) . |
| 28 | I promise to sing for Hochhauser as well as I can . |