Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it and clung there for a while , then pushed clear and knelt among the waves , head lowered . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd come and stay here for a bit . |
| 3 | My parents are going to France at Christmas and erm I do n't wan na go with them really and nor does Digby so he , Digby 's gon na come and stay just for a bit and my house it has to be empty and Foxy 's coming round to stay . |
| 4 | " Come and sit here for a bit . |
| 5 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 6 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 7 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 8 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 9 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 10 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 11 | Melt half the butter in a saucepan , add the beans and cook gently for a couple of minutes , stirring , then add the savory and just enough boiling water to cover the beans . |
| 12 | Add conditioner to the water , and aerate thoroughly for a couple of days . |
| 13 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 14 | It is here that the rich and super-rich moor their magnificent multi-million pound floating palaces and slip ashore for a glass of bubbly or two . |
| 15 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack . |
| 18 | She looked up and waved as the Golf drove past and when Melissa had put it away and locked the garage door , she rammed her fork into the ground and strolled over for a chat . |
| 19 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 20 | And we 've been waiting and waiting and waiting now for a week to get this reconciliation at least together so that we could go out and re-count whatever was required . |
| 21 | Why do n't you take the duty room and go and lie down for a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 22 | With the redundancy I have time to go and search properly for a job . ’ |
| 23 | BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint . |
| 24 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 25 | Contracts should be structured so that if the company does n't release any recordings during a certain contract year , the artist has the option to terminate the agreement and look elsewhere for a record deal . |
| 26 | The absence of demand for industrial development forced MDC to abandon its original strategy and opt instead for a tourist and leisure based strategy . |
| 27 | The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months . |
| 28 | Charles continued to live with her in Cambridge , commuting by car to Ipswich to teach his classes , and staying there for a night or two each week . |
| 29 | She unstrapped the harness , and glanced around for a spot to hide the acres of silk canopy . |
| 30 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |