Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 2 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
| 3 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 4 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 5 | Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite . |
| 6 | Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of . |
| 7 | HAVING the only large area of concrete within the town boundary , Wallingford 's forecourt has become the ‘ traditional ’ assembly area for all the local activities from scouting to carnival parades and now it seems for a 1920s engine boiler ! |
| 8 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 9 | And here I apologise for the rather poor sound quality , but he refused to shut his parrot and dogs in another room during the interview . |
| 10 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 11 | And then we paid for a winter clean . |
| 12 | And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother . |
| 13 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 14 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 15 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 16 | Erm I think bro broadly , certainly by the time you 've got through to the later spring th th there is y yes I mean i in a sense there are sort of three areas if you like but , but very broadly the areas which had not been taken over yet i is very much a slower process of consolidation and then you wait for the next rule . |
| 17 | He just ca n't put it forward , so you have to get a book and do it yourself , and then I ask for the syllabus so I can make sure |
| 18 | ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’ |
| 19 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 20 | She do n't go to work no more , and sometimes she cries for no reason . |
| 21 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |
| 22 | We are interested here in finding out what the norms are within a single social stratum and how they function for the speakers : at this point in our work we have no justification for relating this pattern to social class differences . |