Example sentences of "[vb past] and [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s . |
| 32 | Now ! he thought and dived for the tree . |
| 33 | Suddenly he swayed and reached for the support of his car door . |
| 34 | I shivered and reached for the hot taps but changed my mind . |
| 35 | At that moment , the art group emerged and headed for the tea-table . |
| 36 | He smiled and headed for the bedroom . |
| 37 | That leaves mothers , children and older people behind in the mad scramble for the doors when the bus arrives , to stand packed together jolted and elbowed for the long slow journeys . |
| 38 | ‘ For Bretonnia and King Louis ! ’ he cried and waited for the response . |
| 39 | She flapped and fretted for the remainder of the meal . |
| 40 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 41 | He wrote and printed for the Scottish History Society his meticulous Itinerary of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ( 1897 ) and the substantial volume , Origins of the Forty-Five ( 1916 ) . |
| 42 | He shrugged and made for the door . |
| 43 | Following the decision of the House of Lords in Hazell v. Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council [ 1992 ] 2 A.C. 1 that all such transactions were ultra vires the local authority concerned and void ab initio , the banks claim the return of the above-mentioned sums on a restitutionary basis on the footing that the consideration for which the respective agreements were concluded has wholly failed ; that the payments were made under a mistake of fact so that it is unjust and unconscionable that Glasgow should be entitled to retain them ; that the sums are money had and received for the use of the banks ; that the sums are held by Glasgow on implied or resulting or constructive trusts of the bank ; and that the banks are entitled to trace them . |
| 44 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kegan said and reached for the intercom on his desk . |
| 45 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 46 | He stood and made for the other room . |
| 47 | We sat and waited for the next move , which turned out to be a visit from Younis and Bilal , insisting that Brian was trying to escape . |
| 48 | Then , huddling deep into the eiderdown , she sat and waited for the dawn . |