Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 2 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 3 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 4 | Yes , her and I went together for seventeen year , before us got married . ’ |
| 5 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 6 | And I saw then for certain |
| 7 | That summer the maternal grandmother 's gift of a Ramadan feast was brought without question to the family majlis , and the young Sheikh , his friends and I sat together for those last painful moments of the first day of Ramadan . |
| 8 | The Luggnuggians are polite and generous people , and I stayed here for three months . |
| 9 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 10 | And I cried solidly for four days . |
| 11 | Thus she monitored many clients whose situation was felt to be unstable , and she negotiated widely for other services . |
| 12 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 13 | Your Mum 's a , and they fuck her and they slap her and she comes back for more . |
| 14 | Er , the Police Authority last year I think actually had to have an extra nine hundred thousand pounds of spending , the budget was funded by the constituent 's authorities , erm , and we 've already for next year in fact , made available effectively six hundred thousand pounds worth of extra spending by erm , various means , so I would hope that erm , the authority does use as , as much prudence and restraint in its financial affairs as possible , because of the , the effects on all , all concerned . |
| 15 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 16 | And we pray too for those whom we represent . |
| 17 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 18 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 19 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 20 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 21 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 22 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 23 | but they , they wo n't , they took two days off last week and they sat indoors for two days , they 've got a love , you know there fantastic couple , really fantastic , they 'll do anything for you , but it 's like Dave , Dave 's always saying take up golf , go swimming |
| 24 | Then Edouard took her into his bedroom , and they remained there for three days and three nights . |
| 25 | And it left boss Graham Taylor saying : ‘ This was no fluke and they worked hard for each other . |
| 26 | She lifted a lined face to him , and he reached over for another Kleenex and smoothed the wetness away , so that she was almost without makeup . |
| 27 | The new gravestone was already in place , and he worked solidly for several hours in the churchyard , putting the plants carefully into the soft earth of her grave . |
| 28 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 29 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 30 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |