Example sentences of "and [be] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most cows are kept in small sheds on terraced land and are taken out for weekly walks on the end of a rope . |
| 2 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 3 | The other 43 patients underwent long term endoprosthesis placement and were followed up for a mean of 15.9 months ; six ( 15% ) developed cholangitis requiring surgery or endoscopic clearance of the ducts , there were no biliary related deaths . |
| 4 | 1455 children entered the Health Study and were followed up for 1185 child-years ( 596 vitamin A group , 589 placebo group ) . |
| 5 | Fred and then they all came round in the evening , and then on S Sunday , went to church and were invited out for lunch , and I went to see my mummy and daddy . |
| 6 | The estimates from each department became more detailed and were spelt out for each of the future years . |
| 7 | Finally that evening the engine pulled into Maidstone where they disembarked , and were put up for the night at the local barracks of the Royal West Kents . |
| 8 | India were always struggling after a tight opening blast by Allan Donald and Fanie de Villiers and were bowled out for 177 . |
| 9 | if you were off to do something and being mucked around for the day , in n it ? |
| 10 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 11 | ‘ Draw them under shadow ’ may mean no more than ‘ pull them out of the hall and into the dark ’ , but it implies also ‘ going we know not where ’ , dying and being handed over for ever to the powers of evil . |
| 12 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 13 | Below the cheek the head tapers down and is rounded off for the lower jaw ; the mouth finishes up about 2¼in wide . |
| 14 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 15 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 16 | About one case in 25 goes through all the pre-trial procedure and is set down for trial . |
| 17 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 19 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |
| 20 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 21 | Stephen Morrow played at left back against Albania and was singled out for praise by Bingham . |
| 22 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 23 | Mr Baines needed stitches and was kept in for observation after needles from the artificial conifer , wielded by wife Lorraine , became embedded in his scalp . |
| 24 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 25 | He did the 60-mile run in 2 hrs 55 mins — and was ticked off for going over the 20mph speed limit . |
| 26 | A twice-cracked shin-bone reduced Ian 's initial impact on his bow in the First Division , although he completely proved his worth among that august company and was called up for England B duty in December 1989 , before the injuries were sustained , but no one , friend or foe alike , will ever forget his dramatic appearance , again as a ‘ super-sub ’ , in the FA Cup Final of 1990 . |
| 27 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 28 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 29 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 30 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |