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Example sentences of "and [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] for " in BNC.

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1	And so he waited for these really rather unexpected people to explain what they required , and hoped he would be able to do whatever it was .
2	Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped .
3	And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed .
4	The most obvious person to take it out on is your boyfriend , and so I settled for that .
5	The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall .
6	And so it proved for Paula , whose father died when she was 29 ‘ leaving me with no senior protector and no-one to love me unconditionally .
7	And lastly she wept for herself .
8	One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines .
9	I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home .
10	Before she reached the precincts of Iona she made the round of the Sound of Mull , called at Tobermory , where she was unnecessarily detained by some shippers not having a lot of sheep waiting ; she sailed up Loch Sunart , got on board part of a flock of sheep at Salen Pier , landed them at Croag in Mull ; and now we made for the Isle of Coll , — the ‘ Sandy Coll ’ Sir Walter speaks of .
11	A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life .
12	If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce .
13	And then we paid for a winter clean .
14	And then we stood for ages while streams of cars whirred rhythmically past .
15	Tenements were noisy and smelly , and then they left for New England .
16	And then they came for us , and there was no one left to defend us . ’
17	And then they came for the Communists , I was n't a Communist so I did n't bother .
18	‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’
19	He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son .
20	They ate up all the knives and forks and then they asked for more .
21	And then she went for him , her voice trembling , her eyes staring with sudden hate , all the Latin in her coming out as she ripped his hand from her shoulder .
22	And then she apologized for causing me trouble !
23	And then she reached for him .
24	She poured her own mug , stirred in two sugars , and then she poured for him .
25	In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian .
26	Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time .
27	You pushed him in the chest with your hand and then you went for him trying to slash him .
28	‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’
29	‘ Nothing ; I 've already said — I stopped by because Adam asked me to copy a disk for him , and then I looked for my calculator — I left it on the table the other day . ’
30	So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water .