Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , a certain chiaroscuro grimness attached to their surreal exchange and cries out for some brainless , comic intervention . |
| 2 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 3 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 4 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 5 | Even when he 'd roared full-blooded into a spiny bush in pursuit of a tennis ball , he 'd ignore our gasps and head back for more . |
| 6 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 7 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 8 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 9 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 10 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 11 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 12 | Well Karol I have to go now , see you on the balcony at Easter and watch out for those pigeons. kind regards to the papal dunces . |
| 13 | And look out for more news concerning the dedicated vintage section of the show , which promises to showcase a multitude of lustworthy collectables for the delectation of the curious and the cognoscenti . |
| 14 | I once saw this same beseeching looseness of eye and mouth in the face of a ragged little faggot on Sunset Boulevard , scorched and peed-on and limping back for more . |
| 15 | The crowd really get off on the Kitchens ' distinctly '80s sound , whooping like only Americans can , and calling out for all the correct songs — and then it dawns on you . |
| 16 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 17 | I was more the romantic type , being satisfied with a snack , holding the lady on a pedestal for a length of time , and coming back for another wee nibble . |
| 18 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 19 | So , being a nosey bugger , which I am , I went into David 's room and looked around for some evidence of what actually might have happened that weekend because I was completely stunned . |
| 20 | this is just one of thirty sessions a week for Swindon 's young swimmers … lack of facilities and pool time dictates they start at the crack of dawn and go back for more at dusk … |
| 21 | The best thing she could do was take a shower , get dressed and go out for some fresh air . |
| 22 | Eventually he limped into the channel , recovered his breath , and went back for more . |
| 23 | ‘ I can manage , ’ he said brusquely , threw them down , and went back for more . |
| 24 | Frequently we stopped , turned and went back for another try to the left or right Our order did not change , with Odd-Knut out in front , then Tony and Nathan , and me bringing the line to an end . |
| 25 | Joe cleared his table , put his carpet-bag in the larder , locked the door and went out for some fresh air and to get an evening paper , afternoon edition . |
| 26 | I spread them in benediction , and reached up for some air . |
| 27 | He walked to the window and stared out for some moments . |
| 28 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |
| 29 | Meryl could sense the woman 's agitation and anger , and cast around for some diversion . |
| 30 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |