Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried so hard , you see , to give him extra attention — extra love — to try and make up for the loss of Maman . |
| 2 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
| 3 | It requires an adult to participate and stay up for the night . |
| 4 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 5 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 6 | That 's his job , sits and works out for a living . |
| 7 | The first trick is to get left of the chockstone and stop in the Jacuzzi Pool , next , to pivot and line up for the exit slot which is only 2½ ft–3ft wide in a foaming pool whose diameter is only 18 ins more than a boat 's length . |
| 8 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 9 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 10 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 11 | You should land ready to fight and watch out for the opponent 's foot sweep . |
| 12 | He was already in so far he could not find his depth , and he wanted to turn and strike back for the shore , but , like an unpractised swimmer , found that the distance he had come was too great for him to return . |
| 13 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 14 | Er they would n't go and sit down for the story with all the other children sit at , sat on my knee on the floor for a short while . |
| 15 | " I think I 'll just go and lie down for a while . " |
| 16 | I 'll go and lie down for an hour , before supper . ’ |
| 17 | There was the evening meal to prepare and Rachel to wash , feed and settle down for the night . |
| 18 | I go and wait about for a min , half a sec , ha , you know just wait for about ten seconds I 've forgotten what I 'm supposed to say wha , can you remind you ? |
| 19 | Why do n't you take the duty room and go and lie down for a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 20 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 21 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 22 | Not the actual shots , those the Director decides and works out for the style they 're going to shoot in . |
| 23 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |