Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And they stop there for a bit , when they 've gone past the start . |
| 4 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 5 | The sky clouded , grew overcast and heavy , and they waited patiently for the rain to start in on them again , knowing they would be in the warmth of Ivrigar by nightfall . |
| 6 | It is at the larva stage of their development when boring and feeding of the grubs takes place that the damage is caused because the adult beetles do not eat and they live only for a short time . |
| 7 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |