Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] for a [noun sg] " 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 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 3 | As he lunged for her she threw herself out of the way and looked desperately for a way out . |
| 4 | Sue filled her mouth with houmus and chewed silently for a moment . |
| 5 | When it slammed behind him she let out a long , shaky breath and felt blindly for a chair , afraid she 'd collapse without some means of support . |
| 6 | ‘ We eventually fell madly in love and went away for a string of dirty weekends . ’ |
| 7 | She began plunging the pole down into the pot once more but , feeling suddenly rebellious , she stopped work and went outside for a breath of fresh air . |
| 8 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's very kind of you , sir , ’ I replied , and thought hard for a moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 11 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 12 | Still , she reached Bristol , and waited there for a ship , ‘ with plenteous tears and boisterous sobbings , with loud cryings and shrill shriekings ’ , and , although her fellow-voyagers threatened to throw her overboard , she got to Spain and back to Bristol in a month . |
| 13 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away . |
| 14 | She smiled at me and sat down and remained thoughtfully for a while with her chin resting on her hand . |
| 15 | She thought and worked and grieved only for a day at a time . |
| 16 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |
| 17 | Then she went back to her car and sat there for a while . |
| 18 | Mildred leapt to the floor and sat there for a moment , reflecting how nice it was to be able to jump such an amazing distance without getting hurt . |
| 19 | Donna slid behind the wheel of the Volvo and sat there for a moment , looking back at the ruins . |