Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 2 | erm there are times , perhaps , when one feels this is a little bit dull and wants to skip on for a page or two , but I suspect that that is the case with most novels that one would want to read nowadays . |
| 3 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 4 | ‘ Dominic had left his AA card at home — we had a bit of a row about that — so we gave up on the car and decided to go out for a meal . |
| 5 | After an appallingly rough five-day voyage the self-styled monarch was unable to land , as intended , at Montrose in Angus , because of the presence of a suspicious-looking vessel , and had to sail on for a further 60 miserable miles [ 96 km ] to Peterhead , beyond Aberdeen . |
| 6 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |