Example sentences of "and [be] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.

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1 The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths .
2 I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across .
3 He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county .
4 Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing .
5 It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think .
6 But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction .
7 Habré arranged elections and was sworn in for a further seven-year presidential term on Dec. 22 , 1989 , but was overthrown on Dec , 1 , 1990 , by rebel forces from the east under the leadership of his one-time military commander Idriss Déby , leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) [ see p. 37907 ] .
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