Example sentences of "i have [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 2 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 3 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 4 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 5 | The last time I 'd made for the bog he 'd broken my back when he caught me straight between the shoulder blades with a loaf of bread . |
| 6 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 7 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 8 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 9 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 10 | He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did . |
| 11 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 12 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 13 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 14 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 15 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 16 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 17 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 18 | Fingering the lump , I began to scrape the theoretical barrel-bottom ; I had prayed for the whiff of putrefaction had n't I ? |
| 19 | I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk . |
| 20 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 21 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 22 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 23 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 24 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 25 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 26 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 27 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 28 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 30 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |