Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 2 | Going into the first Test at Port-of-Spain under the leadership of Mike Denness , England were put in and bowled out for a meagre 131 ( Greig top-scored with 37 ) . |
| 3 | But the children soon settle down and gather round for a closer look at Caesar a 12ft long Burmese python . |
| 4 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 5 | But in the end he could stand it no longer and went out for a walk . |
| 6 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |
| 7 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 8 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 9 | After a particularly barbarous game of Murder Ball in the school gym , I stripped off and queued up for a quick soaking , along with 40 other pre-pubescent boys . |
| 10 | You 're looking very weary now , do you need to go home and lie down for a bit ? |
| 11 | We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well . |
| 12 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |
| 13 | Ask Lina if she 'd like to come up and help out for a few weeks ? |
| 14 | Let your child suck water up the straw , blow it out and play around for a while . |
| 15 | I 'm going to recommend that you are taken off duty immediately and sent back for a three-month intensive retraining schedule , ’ |
| 16 | Then it turned around and went back for a drink of water . |
| 17 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 18 | " Why do n't you pop upstairs and lie down for a bit ? |
| 19 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 20 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 21 | At the start , the hare dashed off and built such a commanding lead that he decided to relax briefly and lay down for a nap . |