Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.

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1 How about your Christmas card this year ? why not knit one and them photograph it for a really professional look ?
2 This way , Dad and I get you for a little longer .
3 Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 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 .
6 Then she held out her hand to me , and I took it for a second .
7 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
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 All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . "
11 There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit .
12 The smoke sort of hangs in blue layers above the bed and I watch it for a bit .
13 There 's a fag end on the ground by my eye and I watch it for a bit .
14 Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead .
15 Yeah , like somebody else , like , you 're walking down the street , like , you 're in a house and , and you check it for a minute and you 're like
16 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 .
17 And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
18 She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift .
19 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 .
20 She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist .
21 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 .
22 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 ’ .
23 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 .
24 ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride .
25 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 .
26 Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit .
27 And he does his for a tenner .
28 ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’
29 He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver .
30 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 .
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