Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 2 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 3 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 4 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 5 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 6 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 7 | The so-called Main Force bombers from 5 and 6 Groups further north were usually later on the scene and were very heavily loaded with high explosives and incendiaries , and they came in for some real pastings . |
| 8 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 9 | She lifted a lined face to him , and he reached over for another Kleenex and smoothed the wetness away , so that she was almost without makeup . |
| 10 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |