Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 3 | " Come and sit here for a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 5 | A diver absorbing excessive nitrogen must ascend to a designated depth to reduce the pressure and remain there for a specified time for what is known as a ‘ decompression stop . ’ |
| 6 | There was no doubt at all that every Brownie there was determined to think hard and hunt hard for a new Pack Meeting place . |
| 7 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 8 | 2 Add the garlic , tomatoes , thyme and green beans and cook gently for a further 5–7 minutes . |
| 9 | 5 Return the turkey or chicken pieces to the pan and cook gently for a few minutes . |
| 10 | Melt half the butter in a saucepan , add the beans and cook gently for a couple of minutes , stirring , then add the savory and just enough boiling water to cover the beans . |
| 11 | Add the bacon and venison and cook quickly for a few minutes , stirring frequently , to seal the meat . |
| 12 | Add conditioner to the water , and aerate thoroughly for a couple of days . |
| 13 | It is here that the rich and super-rich moor their magnificent multi-million pound floating palaces and slip ashore for a glass of bubbly or two . |
| 14 | I go and wait about for a min , half a sec , ha , you know just wait for about ten seconds I 've forgotten what I 'm supposed to say wha , can you remind you ? |
| 15 | ‘ I was quite prepared to play in the reserves , and wait patiently for an opportunity . |
| 16 | Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack . |
| 17 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 18 | Why do n't you take the duty room and go and lie down for a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 19 | An effective history teacher needs to be able to spot the potential of particular pieces of evidence and select carefully for a particular task . |
| 20 | Contracts should be structured so that if the company does n't release any recordings during a certain contract year , the artist has the option to terminate the agreement and look elsewhere for a record deal . |
| 21 | And look out for a new Spanish star , Jésus Montoya , who showed so brilliantly in the Vuelta d'Espana in May . |
| 22 | Leave the summit walking south and look out for a shallow gully leading towards a steep grass slope beside a burn and on to Glenlicht House . |
| 23 | And look out for an OS/2 and a Windows NT implementation too . |
| 24 | SHOULD Selkirk fail to make the grade and drop out for a fourth spell in Division II , they will at least on this occasion descend with honour . |
| 25 | The absence of demand for industrial development forced MDC to abandon its original strategy and opt instead for a tourist and leisure based strategy . |
| 26 | ( In the same way , most mathematicians reject the purely formalist , symbolic , view of mathematics and opt instead for a Platonic picture that ascribes an ‘ existence ’ to such abstract notions as integers , irrational numbers and groups . ) |
| 27 | The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months . |
| 28 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 29 | I shall invite Roirbak and Malamute here for a meeting to give you more freedom . |
| 30 | ‘ They will arrive at twelve and stay probably for an hour and a half or so . |