Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages .
2 ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said .
3 And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud .
4 Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second .
5 Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive
6 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
7 It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort .
8 I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves
9 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
10 I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time .
11 Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation .
12 And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
13 She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift .
14 And she asked me for the fifty P .
15 As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink .
16 Managing the boat , he was in total command , and she admired him for the ease with which he wove between the countless busy craft , the pleasure boats , gondolas and the small and large ferries , his eyes constantly alert .
17 The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that .
18 It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ .
19 He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care .
20 I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to .
21 The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft .
22 Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit .
23 Unfortunately , for example , he believed certain things which were wrong ( such as the tenets of Unitarianism ) , and he believed them for the wrong reasons ( such as the theistic proofs ) .
24 ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’
25 He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver .
26 And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won .
27 Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence .
28 He must have felt it and he must have suffered afterwards from it I would imagine , but he had , he had those qualifications , he had those abilities and he used them for a .
29 We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday .
30 Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat
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