Example sentences of "i [verb] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | I mean waiting for me ? ’ |
| 2 | While I contemplate screaming for mercy . ) |
| 3 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 4 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 5 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 6 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 7 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 8 | ‘ I beg your pardon for intruding , ’ she said , ‘ but I came looking for someone to serve me with petrol and I heard your voices and then what you said about Brownies . ’ |
| 9 | So anyway , I came looking for you . |
| 10 | ‘ I came looking for Brenda Blond . ’ |
| 11 | I support bargaining for London . |
| 12 | I enjoy working for the agency . |
| 13 | I am now sixteen and like most sixteen year old girls I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I recall leading for the Opposition in the early 1970s on the Fair Trading Act 1973 . |
| 17 | I agreed but then thought , yes I do , what else have I got going for me ? |
| 18 | I 'd known her , and her husband Alan Rakoff , for a long time and as I began searching for someone to play Barbara I just found myself thinking about her . |
| 19 | ‘ I enjoyed singing for Tippett , ’ she said , ‘ even though he was quite a perfectionist . ’ |
| 20 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 23 | I remember digging for what seemed like hours to lift those bulbs , so make sure you plant them where they will not need to be moved and allow ample room for their growth . |
| 24 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 25 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember crying for about half an hour , ’ says Matthew , now 20 and working as a bank teller in Kew . |
| 27 | I remember coming for tea and er the table was where it is now I do n't know whether it was |
| 28 | But third , and most powerfully , I remember working for ‘ the scholarship exam ’ , direct predecessor of the eleven-plus . |
| 29 | That 's the first place I tried , when I started looking for you . |
| 30 | You do n't get anything on this scale without communication lines , so I started looking for them . ’ |