Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard that a couple who lived across the road from us , Maureen and Aubrey Edwards , took in and cared for injured birds . |
| 2 | He reeled in and prepared for another cast , seeming absorbed by his task . |
| 3 | Have carpenters ready to cut off their tusks ; then , at the spot where the tower is to be built , you must lie down and sleep for seven nights with your head pillowed on the sack of basil . |
| 4 | Rotas for house cleaning , loo disinfecting , washing up , cooker cleaning and decisions about kitty and shopping for basic shared commodities such as tea , coffee , loo paper , need to be clearly written down and displayed for all to see . |
| 5 | Slithering through damp meadows at night , wriggling over rocks and up waterfalls , even finding their way into mountain streams , ten thousand feet up in the Alps — in these resting spots , they settle down and live for many years . |
| 6 | and erm and erm I would really formally ask the board if , if there is any objection to our deliberations being recorded and taken down and used for another purpose . |
| 7 | I broke down and cried for fifteen minutes . |
| 8 | When he gets home he will sit down and weep for all his hopes and plans and dreams . |
| 9 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 10 | Fifteen miles south of Garberville my eyes began to close and I pulled over and slept for half an hour . |
| 11 | Reduce the heat to 170C/340F and cook for about 10 minutes , then turn over and cook for 5 minutes until brown and crispy . |
| 12 | You 've got to tell them when you 're on and ask for sanitary towels . |
| 13 | They just took off and left for good . |
| 14 | I better back off and wait for another day . ’ |
| 15 | Sam wants the plane and all the coke in it and Dwayne and the rest can fuck off and die for all he cares . |
| 16 | Now here 's something to argue about this weekend … what would you say is the hardest … or toughest race to win in sport … football 's league title … formula one … the olympic marathon … how about the jockeys championship … they 've been off and running for six months and leading the chase is Oxfordshire ’ s Richard Dunwoody … we 're riding with him for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 17 | And that volcanic streak was responsible for his rash announcement last December to retire after he was sent off and banned for four games at his last French club , Nimes . |
| 18 | The incident was highlighted on Sky TV and spotted by the club 's committee when they watched a video of the clash between John Devereux and Keith England in the same match which resulted in both men being sent off and banned for two games . |
| 19 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 20 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 21 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 22 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 23 | The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption . |
| 24 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 25 | The tank has been up and running for eight months : pH is 7.8 , with 15°GH and 12°KH . |
| 26 | I have a 48″ × 17″ × 16″ aquarium which has been up and running for six months . |
| 27 | It has been up and running for 18 months and was beta tested last summer by Japanese engineers from NEC Corp that built an I-Tron interface to it . |
| 28 | Sun , which claims an installed base of some 2,000 machines in Ireland , has had an operation up and running for three years . |
| 29 | It is the only way the women of West Belfast are able to actually able to take on further education and if you ca n't stand up and fight for that then West Belfast is not working . |
| 30 | said I 've no qualms about 'em , and yet he 's , somebody that votes for bloody Green Party , eh , he 's just been up and voted for Green Party , I said I 'd of stopped at home if I was you |