Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 2 | He stopped and thought for a moment . |
| 3 | First performed in 1932 , it was enthusiastically received and ran for a year . |
| 4 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 5 | So do major prints by Sam Francis ( who lived and worked for a while in Japan ) . |
| 6 | He frowned and panicked for a moment . |
| 7 | Then he turned and stood for a while gazing out at the Pacific . |
| 8 | Once — ’ the voice shook and hesitated for a moment ‘ — once it was a pair of pliers . |
| 9 | Carol sighed and reached for a tissue from the bedside table . |
| 10 | Talbot nodded and reached for a phone . |
| 11 | Three hours later , Becky returned and went for a lunchtime drink with Jamie to talk things over . |
| 12 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 13 | In 1811 Abbot and Charlotte Upcher , while staying at Yarmouth , saw and fell for a farm which was being sold by Cook Flower . |
| 14 | Nancarrow , on his third match point , at 9–9 , played another drop which was not that tight and Marshall , closing in to drive it deep , was obstructed and asked for a let . |
| 15 | It is not , however , to be regarded as a receptacle to be emptied and purified for an infilling of some cosmic force . |
| 16 | He paused and thought for a moment , obviously very moved . |
| 17 | I got up , dressed and went for a walk , my limbs lethargic with the altitude , my brain sluggish after the disturbed night . |
| 18 | The following morning I rose early , dressed and asked for a driver to take me and my suitcase to the hospital . |
| 19 | ‘ And first of all , I 'm going to climb through the window , ’ she said and reached for a stack of sacking which had been thrown down near the wall and which , piled carefully , might enable her to reach the sill . |
| 20 | I stood and watched for a minute or two |
| 21 | He stood and watched for a while but everything connected with seamanship is so majestically slow that he began to feel guilty of time wasting while the little vessel was still being manoeuvred through the gap . |
| 22 | Jahsaxa sat and pondered for a while . |
| 23 | The glass rocked and wavered for an instant before it fell and a dark pool of wine spread over the tablecloth between them . |
| 24 | Less than a hundred yards from the wall they swerved and re-grouped for a charge as the infantry swarmed up behind them . |