Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 2 | Before the building of roads , it was peripheral and resembled that practised for the previous 350 years . |
| 3 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 4 | Whilst they rested and fed and waited for the skies to clear , we could enjoy their presence . |
| 5 | I shook and panicked and wept for the fist time since he 'd been born . |
| 6 | It is a creative process , not a past process and something which is just stored away and lost and kept for the future . |
| 7 | A return to the eternal verities might be in order , but even then you can still end up clean shaven , well trousered and blazered and commentating for the pie in the Sky . |