Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because I was in like really really tight tights , er like and then a pair of ski pants over the top er , my whole leg was like , you know , sort of soaked in and this bloke was there going , hee , that 's pretty impressive and I was like , I 'm not going to let him know I was crying and like got up and went to the top of the slope and I carried on skiing for about an extra half an hour , but like when I got home , and I just took off , my whole leg started , feet swelling as I took the like , the tight like leggings off . |
| 2 | I was interested in the waves of immigration into Britain both pre-historically and later , and I kept on looking for proposals which would represent this both in multi-cultural and archaeological terms . |
| 3 | And I came out to look for you . ’ |
| 4 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 5 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 6 | ‘ Last year , at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the first Frazier fight , you got up to speak and you ended up talking for probably ten minutes . |
| 7 | And she went off to look for Moominpappa to ask him to put up two more beds — very , very small ones . |
| 8 | Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side . |
| 9 | As an engineer , with a craftsperson 's interest in machines , he could not believe that they were the real villains of the piece and he set about looking for the deeper fault underlying their applications . |
| 10 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |