Example sentences of "i [vb base] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 2 | I mean for every great Cure record you get an inferior follow-up with all the same ingredients but without the spark . |
| 3 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 4 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 5 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 6 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 7 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 8 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 9 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 10 | This afternoon , the trial was halted when the Judge , Mr. Justice Auld , called in the jury after several hours of legal argument and told them , ’ I apologise for the long delay . |
| 11 | ‘ Monsieur Dacourt , ’ Francis announced in perfect English , ‘ I apologise for the tardy arrival and abrupt interruption of your eloquent speech by Akim and his cats . |
| 12 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 13 | ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’ |
| 14 | I speak for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 16 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 17 | Now I die for the last time . |
| 18 | I wait for the inevitable question . |
| 19 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 20 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 21 | When I come out into the light at the end , I look for the white van . |
| 22 | ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows : |
| 23 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
| 24 | I consider the and figure should be discounted down to eighteen , which is the figure I adopt for the whole life multiplier . |
| 25 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 26 | I opt for the outside seat which in some models is adapted into a mini-swimming-pool . |
| 27 | I guess for a true human you 've reached a decent age . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose for the early settlers the smaller tarns such as those on Widdale , Baugh Fell and Whernside looked like tears on the face of the fell . |
| 29 | ‘ I grieve for the white bodies |
| 30 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |