Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 But the children soon settle down and gather round for a closer look at Caesar a 12ft long Burmese python .
3 Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot .
4 Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 ? )
8 Ask Lina if she 'd like to come up and help out for a few weeks ?
9 Let your child suck water up the straw , blow it out and play around for a while .
10 Then it turned around and went back for a drink of water .
11 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 .
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