Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 2 | Trapped in a nightmare of indecision , I reluctantly agreed and prepared myself for the worst . |
| 3 | While half of her brain hated and despised them for the job they were doing , the other half acknowledged that at least part of her present mission was to buy newspapers and read what was said . |
| 4 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 5 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 6 | No , they wrote and ask you for the exact date of day I started getting ability allowance . |
| 7 | I stood and watched them for a while , training my binoculars on them and seeming , now and again in the shifting images of light , to discern structures around them . |
| 8 | She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic . |