Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked to the window and stared out for some moments . |
| 2 | I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years . |
| 3 | He started the car by letting it run downhill — Maxim had insisted they park so that there would be no give-away noise of the starter- and drove steadily for several miles . |
| 4 | So , being a nosey bugger , which I am , I went into David 's room and looked around for some evidence of what actually might have happened that weekend because I was completely stunned . |
| 5 | Joe cleared his table , put his carpet-bag in the larder , locked the door and went out for some fresh air and to get an evening paper , afternoon edition . |
| 6 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 7 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |
| 8 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |