Example sentences of "and i [verb] [adv prt] 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 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
3 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |