Example sentences of "and i [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 I could n't let this frail old man go In there and maybe get knocked down and savaged , and I looked around for a means of protection .
2 We rode a little , walked , talked , played cards in the evening and I looked out for Poppy .
3 Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros .
4 The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that .
5 I think the rain and I went on for about three hours .
6 Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle .
7 Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on .
8 Amy and I went out for the day .
9 But then I thought , ‘ I 'll show him , ’ and I went in for the Pub Entertainer of the Year contest .
10 ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again .
11 The next morning he had left us to rejoin his regiment , even before Granpa and I started out for the market .
12 We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night .
13 We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours .
14 School taught me how to read early , and I found out for myself how to do it fast .
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