Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 When he found the door , he pulled off his dressing-gown and pyjamas , turned the handle , slipped inside and dived rapturously for the recumbent figure beneath the bedclothes .
2 She is dying inside and crying out for love , just like me .
3 John 's slight built made him a tantalising opponent , but he had scorching pace and neat control , while also possessing the ability to cut inside and shoot powerfully for goal himself , so that he could always be relied upon to contribute several useful goals each season .
4 Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate .
5 The interviewing panel of Horsley , Pilger and Hayling , with Kerry Brown and Maxine Johnson representing the Founders , was supplemented by Christine Jackson , sitting in and limbering up for Equal Opportunities .
6 As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead .
7 Otherwise if erm if you desperately need us sort of thing if you ring the vicarage and then you can erm Alison or somebody will probably be in and come round for
8 Whatever it is , you 'll have to load it in and find out for yourself , 'cos I 'm not telling !
9 Going into the first Test at Port-of-Spain under the leadership of Mike Denness , England were put in and bowled out for a meagre 131 ( Greig top-scored with 37 ) .
10 On the ground where Durham were put in and bowled out for 120 on Sunday , the wicket was again damp following watering of the drought-stricken square .
11 He jumped in and set off for his rendezvous with Volkov 's wife .
12 And the miserable hotchpotch of confused ideas and pressures was quietly buried in the depths of her mind , just as a wilderness of plants dies down and goes underground for the winter .
13 But the children soon settle down and gather round for a closer look at Caesar a 12ft long Burmese python .
14 And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things .
15 She smiled at me and sat down and remained thoughtfully for a while with her chin resting on her hand .
16 If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure .
17 We often have lunch together and go out for drinks .
18 But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf .
19 If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material .
20 They got their rods and landing nets together and set off for home .
21 We got some torches together and set off for the graveyard .
22 But in the end he could stand it no longer and went out for a walk .
23 The long slow hours of four in the morning , when a man and a woman lie awake in the dark , and one of them keeps on talking , while the other turns away and groans out for sleep .
24 ‘ This produced a pretty farcical scene really with us both stopped on the track , but I managed to get away and hang on for second .
25 the cherry and whites pack bulldozed their way to the line and sure enough after lots of huff and puff pushed over and touched down for try number three …
26 Read over and check carefully for errors , either grammatical or type-wise .
27 If I have a problem then I can take it elsewhere and find out for sure .
28 and even if you do n't it 's gon na c you know And er you get a few choice words and then eventually you say Well well look we 'll go outside and sit outside for a few minutes and d and wait till you 've decided what and do n't forget i time you kn you kn
29 And , towards the end of their marriage , he was also trying many things in his efforts to bolster his career , writing furiously and trying hard for the elusive break .
30 This refers to concentrating on and looking out for specific details in the world around you .
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