Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started dating and eventually went out for about three years . |
| 2 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 3 | After a good night 's sleep , we arrived at breakfast with about 15 minutes to spare , and eventually set off for Hungary where we were due to stay the night with a Weymouth girl married to a Hungarian and is living in Gyor . |
| 4 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 5 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
| 6 | For , before another thought could form in her head , he was laying aside their brandy glasses and gently reaching out for her , one arm sliding round her waist . |
| 7 | Knowing what your rights may be worth in money terms will help you not only to decide whether or not to take legal action , if necessary , to recover the sums due to you , but also to assess the reasonableness of any ‘ termination package deal ’ offered to you and generally to plan ahead for the future . |
| 8 | Keith Mills and Mike Timothy took to the water , made waves and generally splashed out for charity when they took part in the BT Swimathon in March . |
| 9 | CIRCULATION of documents apparently intended for board members and senior executives of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association has fuelled speculation that the professional game 's governing body has ‘ wasted the golden years of snooker and not planned properly for the future . ’ |
| 10 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 11 | They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home . |
| 12 | The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘ |
| 13 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 14 | Your article on the problems of foreign-owned stockbrokers in Tokyo ( ‘ Gaijin , gaijin , gone ’ , December 22nd ) has caused considerable offence within Barclays and has quite unfairly and incorrectly singled out for attack one of our middle managers , Michael Tomalin . |
| 15 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
| 16 | Whilst a single stimulation of the body surface close to the gill or siphon produces a reflex withdrawal , on repeated stimulation the response habituates ; that is , the response to the repeated stimuli steadily diminishes and finally disappears completely for a while . |
| 17 | With Formgen you will be able to design your form on screen , making changes as you go along to perfect it , and finally print out for copying . |
| 18 | With Formgen you will be able to design your form on screen , making changes as you go along to perfect it , and finally print out for copying . |
| 19 | This is a conflict of interest which can not easily be overcome and hardly augurs well for the future reconciliation of the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural rural population . |
| 20 | The Rolling Stones guitarist said he was saddened by her frail health and still cared deeply for Mandy , now aged 22 . |
| 21 | With it , she put on stockings with the holes and ladders neatly darned , saved for Sundays , and a pair of round-toed , low-heeled , strapped shoes , very old but nicely polished and also kept only for Sundays . |
| 22 | Remove rude jokes and deliberate sexual innuendos , and also watch out for unintended double entendres which might make inebriated members of the audience laugh when you are being serious and sincere . |
| 23 | There needs to be a link between the thesaurus and the data input screens for the database so that new terms can optionally be included in the thesaurus during indexing , and also reviewed later for completion of relationship indication . |
| 24 | Rhinos are mainly hunted for their horns which are then used in the Middle East for ceremonial dagger handles and also ground up for so called healing properties . |
| 25 | He is at a significant stage in his development , but has had an excellent domestic season and also performed well for England ‘ B ’ . |
| 26 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 27 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 28 | AND now stand by for our Christmas competition . |
| 29 | At festivals she went back home and often stayed away for several days , despite the knowledge that her late return would meet with an endless round of angry curses . |
| 30 | Members of those groups which had been left out of broadcasting altogether felt aggrieved and often campaigned vigorously for recognition . |