Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't let this frail old man go In there and maybe get knocked down and savaged , and I looked around for a means of protection . |
| 2 | She went back into the house and I waited outside for a while enjoying the cool breeze . |
| 3 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 4 | Dr Tehyi Hsieh took five curtain calls after that lecture , and I went back-stage for an interview afterwards . |
| 5 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 6 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 7 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 8 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 9 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 10 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 11 | There was no table set and she looked round for a sideboard that must house such things as cutlery . |
| 12 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 13 | I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee . |
| 14 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 15 | ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down . |
| 16 | We walked from Little Thomham to Steams of Shimpling ; and we walked there for a week . |
| 17 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 18 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 19 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 20 | As I watched , the flame , a centimetre behind the wasp 's wax gummed head , freed the antennae from the grease and they came upright for a while before they frazzled . |
| 21 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | His condition is fine and he went out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 23 | He was forced to abandon his original plan for an arched bridge of cast iron by the need for ships to be able to pass through the strait , and he opted instead for a suspension bridge 100 feet above water level and with a span of 579 feet . |
| 24 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 25 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 26 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 27 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |