Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept downstairs and was outside and successfully making for the front gate when Ted sprinted around the side of the house and grabbed me . |
| 2 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 3 | He writes and rewrites in long-hand , and endlessly checks for the smallest detail . |
| 4 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 5 | Cato had an instinctive interest and perhaps respect for the conquered populations of Italy and the provinces . |
| 6 | So when you holiday in Britain you can wish for good weather and only hope for the best . |
| 7 | Flintshire must win by at least five wickets to snatch second in the four-strong group and thus qualify for the semi-final knockout stage . |
| 8 | In Los Angeles , discussions centred not merely on drug usage as a topical exploitation subject for movies but also on the widespread and varied substances which were readily available , being increasingly used and largely blamed for the incredible recent upsurge in violence within the protest movement . |
| 9 | I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area . |
| 10 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , may I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for the coming year . |
| 12 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 13 | Notoriously strong , due to enforced national service , and generously funded for the same reason , French Army sides of the past have launched international careers like that of Eric Vergniol , who this year switched to rugby union . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 15 | We are not going to have any shooting trouble with them but they are tough bargainers and always ask for the whole earth , expecting maybe to get an acre . " |
| 16 | The notion of " betrayal " took hold on militants in the labour movement and partly accounts for the bitter resentment between the Left and most union officials during the 1930s . |
| 17 | Even allowing for the fact that television programmes are necessarily selective choosing shocking cases to illustrate the point , and also allowing for the evident confusion with the programme caused by pre-1 April material combined with a post-1 April dialogue , some disturbing situations were illustrated . |
| 18 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 19 | In the election of 1918 they could not bear it and both voted for the Labour Party . |
| 20 | In short , if agriculture is judged by the criteria of performance applied to manufacturing industry , there is every reason to argue that its output has been artificially and substantially inflated for the whole period since 1950 . |
| 21 | Two years later , again at Daytona , on 11 March 1929 , he recaptured the record from the American Ray Keech at 231.362 m.p.h. in Golden Arrow , designed by Captain J. S. Irving with a 900-hp aero-engine hired from Napier and originally designed for the Schneider trophy winner Supermarine seaplane . |
| 22 | From simple pastimes such as hiking in the company of qualified guides , to tennis , to golf , riding , fishing , rafting , mountain biking and even paragliding for the adventurous , Saalbach-Hinterglemm has it all . |
| 23 | The dog , which was hardly backed at 5–1 , clocked a tremendous 27.47 secs for the 450 metres trip , and even allowing for the +30 going still ‘ found ’ 47 spots . |
| 24 | The blissfully peaceful hotels we have selected are all on Mahe Island and well situated for the beautiful beaches . |
| 25 | At the same time , however , the man appointed as Minister , Gabriel Arias Salgado , was a rigid Catholic and well known for the fanatical campaigns against sin and temptation in literature , cinema and theatre that he had master-minded from the Department of Popular Education in the 1940s . |
| 26 | Knowing that the carp will not have as much energy as when I first hooked it , I pile on the pressure in no uncertain terms , and the fish swings round and immediately makes for the same lily bed it took refuge in previously . |
| 27 | Cells were treated with chemicals for 30min at 37 °C or as stated and then incubated for the indicated times before isolation of total RNA . |
| 28 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 29 | From these , we can derive ( using the assumptions about the random terms ) the difference equations for the second moments ( variances and covariance ) , and then solve for the steady-state values to which they converge . |
| 30 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |