Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I did n't understand what he meant , and nothing happened for a few weeks , so I did not feel so worried .
2 Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked .
3 He stood up and I noticed for the first time a bunch of keys at his belt .
4 He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing .
5 Her pink flying suit had two dirty orbs where her backside had imprinted itself on the ground and I noticed for the first time that her trainers were at least size 9 ( men 's ) .
6 Fenella took a deep breath and I noticed for the first time just how impressively she could breathe .
7 When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people .
8 Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life .
9 Anyway , I was congratulated once more and I realised for the first time that I was actually doing some good .
10 Her crew danced to their tasks , and I understood for the first time the meaning of the Indonesian words for " crewman " — " anak prahu " , literally " child of the prahu " .
11 My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk .
12 The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 .
13 It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries .
14 At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks .
15 Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people .
16 and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature .
17 We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up .
18 And I knew for a little while that would be true .
19 Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters .
20 The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like .
21 At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time .
22 And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands .
23 And I think for the dyslexic child , for the disturbed child generally , we need to offer an atmosphere which is calm .
24 where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field .
25 Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture .
26 Meanwhile , talks were also continuing in Vienna on the implementation of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , which had been signed in November 1990 by 22 states from eastern Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) [ see pp. 37838 ; 38255 ; 38458 ] , and which provided for a multilateral reduction of troop deployment levels in Europe as well as a general reduction of conventional weapons stockpiles .
27 You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school .
28 And who paid for the extra deliveries ?
29 His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come .
30 Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round .
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