Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 2 | I had no choice but to leave and I made for the kitchen carrying the dollar on the tray like a trophy anchored by a thumb . |
| 3 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 4 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 5 | Bob Platt and I pressed for a bowler as fiercely as we could , but to no avail . |
| 6 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 7 | ‘ But there were some problem areas , and I went for a swim to get it out of my system . ’ |
| 8 | The following morning , the scout picked me up and I went for a trial . |
| 9 | When the telegram arrived , Joan and I went for a walk so that I could work the adrenalin out of my system . |
| 10 | It was pleasant out of doors and I went for a walk , down by the station , along the Wharf and across the promenade . ’ |
| 11 | And they said so at the er at the district council , went up to district and I asked for the support of the district council and er probably John immediately said , you have the full support of the district council for it he says and I 'll ensure that you get support with the result I also received four posters direct from the Edinburgh District Council with John photograph on it and with the caption st stating every old age pensioner should be signing here . |
| 12 | We both smiled , and I knew for a fact that she was n't Daine . |
| 13 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 14 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 15 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 16 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 17 | A doctor sometimes sees people with a different eye from other people , and I wondered for a moment whether , despite her beauty and her apparently special position on the island , she was really happy . |
| 18 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 19 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 20 | And I learned to drive — mum and dad paid for my driving lessons and I paid for the driving test . |
| 21 | It was time to find Graham Fearnley and I headed for the champagne tent . |
| 22 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 23 | I was left feeling really dirty and confused , and I cried for a month . |
| 24 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 25 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 26 | He was one of the central figures in the Catholic Committee , a self-appointed body formed in 1778 , predominately lay in character and noble in membership , which saw itself as speaking for ‘ informed ’ Catholic opinion ( Petre always protected radicals among the clergy , such as Alexander Geddes , q.v. ) and which agitated for the freeing of the English Catholics from civil disabilities . |
| 27 | If you were working , though , the thing reversed itself : and you longed for the office lights to blink out , and the old Smith-Corona to die under your fingertips … |
| 28 | But for girls who were unattached and less inhibited , and who yearned for a bit of ‘ fun ’ , the prospect of lavish meals in American messes , and gifts of sweets and nylons , accompanied , let it be said in all fairness , by flatteringly gallant , if brash , wooing , could be a powerful magnet . |
| 29 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 30 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |