Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former met rarely and for purely formal purposes . |
| 2 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 3 | ‘ He never worried about exhibiting his work : never came to steal from neighbours ; he lived in and for himself ’ . |
| 4 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 5 | The figures for black youngsters excluded indefinitely and for a fixed period were also above average . |
| 6 | His eyes narrowed dangerously and for a split-second Polly held her breath . |
| 7 | A long quarter swell built up and for four days and nights the carrack raced along , slipping backwards down each wave as it overtook her , wallowing heavily as the next one came up astern , and making a dazzling white wake that trailed astern like a huge , ragged scar across the aquamarine ocean . |
| 8 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 9 | Well we were trying to remember the lines to that and she came in and for about half an hour she gave a rendition . |
| 10 | A very gallant gentleman at the next table came over and for no particular reason , kissed my hand ! |
| 11 | And what more radical initiative in education could be mounted than one which decisively disturbed the traditional partnership between central and local government in the management of education and which exploded once and for all the myth of ‘ the secret garden of the curriculum ’ ? |
| 12 | From a functionalist perspective the Committee 's value was , first , as a pressure-release valve and , secondly , that it ‘ disposed once and for all of this conspiratorial theory of executive power ’ . |
| 13 | Her anger and resentment grew as she drove home and for the rest of that evening she found it difficult to get David Markham out of her mind . |
| 14 | Distinctions were soon lost , and after a spell of being known as Alba the country became once and for all Scotland , though some of its boundaries were still in a state of flux . |
| 15 | Until the middle of the sixteenth century there was considerable hope , held by the Emperor Charles V among others , that the breach between Catholic and Protestant might yet be closed ; the abortive visit of the Protestant envoys to the Council of Trent in 1551 showed once and for all that that hope was delusive . |
| 16 | THE ALBUM that launched a thousand NME headlines and , more pertinently , confirmed once and for all that rap was no passing fad and was , in fact , nothing less than an art form . |
| 17 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 18 | So there is a steady blossoming of congregations ( such as the Chinese Christian Churches in London , Birmingham and Oxford ) initiated by and for a particular ethnic minority group . |
| 19 | We took in and for and still use it . |
| 20 | To elude Khomeinis avenging angels , Behbehanian went underground and for the next few years lived incognito at the homes of various friend , particularly in Switzerland . |
| 21 | With any luck they will meet and get this sorted once and for all . |
| 22 | Then he looked up and for a moment he was so amazed that he forgot the misery . |
| 23 | The messenger ambled out and for no good reason everybody stopped talking until they heard the lock click . |
| 24 | Christine looked across and for the first time a defensive flabbiness crawled across her face . |
| 25 | The man whirled round and for a few seconds the landlord saw his face . |
| 26 | Again like Syracuse ( which co-existed with Carthage ) , Cyrene co-existed happily and for decades with a great non-Greek power , Persia . |
| 27 | He smiled reassuringly and for a moment his expression softened . |
| 28 | The Left , as we have seen , believed that the October revolution had once and for all buried the national issue . |
| 29 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 30 | They said that Hamish Deans had unilaterally and for no good reason prevented the signing of the former Celtic striker Andy Walker , now with Bolton , after the player had agreed terms with Falkirk . |