Example sentences of "i [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 2 | I mean for a while I think it was maybe my glasses , but these are just new |
| 3 | I mean for a it 's a habit , why he walks like that because he 's come home from the Duke so many times pissed in n it ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I mean for a |
| 6 | I mean for every great Cure record you get an inferior follow-up with all the same ingredients but without the spark . |
| 7 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 8 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 11 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 12 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 13 | I mean for the price of that bed , I mean you could n't go far wrong though . |
| 14 | I mean for the Republicans the purpose is a united Ireland . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it . |
| 17 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away . |
| 20 | Bit too complicated I fear for a terrace chant … still — I like it ! ! |
| 21 | If this does not happen , I fear for the future of this denomination which I love and to which I am loyal . |
| 22 | To use another metaphor , if the world of education becomes a jungle of market forces , I fear for the survival of children with special needs . |
| 23 | I sit for an hour , alone at a table with only one drink of scathing hard whiskey , which does not fall lightly upon my throat , but burns my mouth and neck with the sting of memory . |
| 24 | I long for a blockbuster that 's also good writing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ How I long for a return to wingers , all-out attack — and entertainment . ’ |
| 26 | I long for a more matter-of-fact , common sense approach to environmental action . |
| 27 | Do you know , I long for a family more than anything in the world ? ’ she blurted out with an intense yearning . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , I do n't mind , ’ said Ianthe , watching an old woman watering plants on a nearby roof ‘ How I long for a cup of tea ! ’ she went on , coming back into the room . |
| 29 | I long for the protection of a written constitution like that of the US with its First Amendment , which elevates freedom of expression above freedom to hide from intellectual challenge , or even vulgar verbal abuse . |
| 30 | I long for the day when those in authority will be united in a common quest to win the lost without worrying about the style of Anglican worship ; when they will see that a prime means to evangelise our nation will be to plant churches and encourage it without worrying about parochial boundaries . |