Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 my brother and sister went away for the week , right ,
2 Then , as the fog , rain and snow persisted , it was further delayed ; then again and again , until at dawn on 21 February the weather and visibility improved sufficiently for the bombardment to be opened .
3 Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral .
4 ‘ He 's being Christian again , ’ said Camille , and she and Sam giggled intermittently for the rest of the evening .
5 Both Beatrice and Modigliani behaved impeccably for the occasion .
6 At the end of November , ten or eleven boys climbed the big walnut tree in the middle of the village , swinging about among its branches , and women and children scrabbled laughingly for the nuts as they fell .
7 He opened the door to the garden , and from Classes 2 and 3 a small group of boys in white running-shorts and T-shirts ran silently for the open air .
8 Before the enrolment of a new group of students onto a programme , centres are required to submit to HCIMA three copies of assessment scheme and information listed below for the areas of study to be offered in the coming session .
9 The normal recourse of exiled Spanish knights was to the nearest Moorish court , but Rodrigo made instead for the Kingdom of Barcelona .
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