Example sentences of "and [verb] for a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if she could just curl up on her bed and sleep for a while she 'd feel better . |
| 2 | ‘ The smiling meadows of Worcestershire and the noble line of the Malvern hills that I love so dearly ’ , he wrote to a member of that titled family from the swamplands of British Guiana in January 1933 , missing and yearning for a home he knew could never be his . |
| 3 | I stopped to look at them , and thought for a moment they looked like prison doors , hiding evil secrets . |
| 4 | He was relatively cheerful and uncomplaining for a man who had had a 40 minute operation to join his fractured kneecap and a severed tendon together again . |
| 5 | In 1811 Abbot and Charlotte Upcher , while staying at Yarmouth , saw and fell for a farm which was being sold by Cook Flower . |
| 6 | If you was greedy and went for a shilling you lost it after a week or two you see ? |
| 7 | Perhaps sometime I 'll be able to devise a way round my official non-existence and apply for a gun myself , though even then , all things considered , I might not be granted a licence . |
| 8 | I fail to see why I should subject myself to the indignity of competing with Tom , Dick , and Narry for a parish which is , at least , £100 per annum poorer than my own , and not nearly so convenient . |
| 9 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 10 | Victor 's silence caused an innocent girl , a servant of the household , to be tried , convicted and killed for a murder she did n't carry out . |
| 11 | I think we should forget about what may have happened in the past and pray for a series which might well become a classic . |