Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 2 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 3 | They had got up early and gone for a swim in the reservoir , which was deserted and silk-smooth , with a pearly mist hovering a clear foot above its surface . |
| 4 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 5 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |