Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you , Crilly , about my first trip to Scotland and the men in chip shops who call you ‘ Hen ’ and the lads wearing green Celtic scarves at lunchtime and broad pointy-horned cattle and graveyards macabre with the tilting of tombstones caked with moss and weeds , sheep grazing and weaving amongst them , and a coastal fishing town in Harris where a night sky shimmers only to itself and I am without friends from , the real world and I listen only for the sound of the tin whistle while the boats rock gently in the jetty and the sky rages from beige to black and craggy mountains dart until forever and a fisherman stands , stunning and alone , strong and unnamed , and leads me slowly into that everchanging sea . |
| 2 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 3 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 4 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |
| 5 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 6 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
| 7 | From there he fly a Learjet , acting as pathfinder for the Skyhawks , and I believe once for the Super Etendards . |
| 8 | There are ninety nine pupils , the total staff is one hundred , of course that does not for a moment mean that er , there is one member of staff attendant on each pupil at all times , and I do n't for a moment suggest that . |
| 9 | That 's routine , and I do n't for a minute expect there to be any complications . |
| 10 | And I make sure that I 'm here and I open up for them , and I make them a cup of tea . |
| 11 | I do n't trust them and I have n't for the seven and a half years I 've been inside jail . |
| 12 | through sexual abuse , and I think we spend a lot of our time , and I think even for teachers , we spend a lot of our time undoing a lot of the damage of helping young people , undo a lot of damage that 's done by sex . |
| 13 | My hat ai n't on my head , and I look round for it . |
| 14 | ‘ And you watch out for the royal governess ! ’ |
| 15 | hi er he 's got to go , he 's got his annual medical , it 's a very high-powered erm thing in Dundee on Tuesday , so Anne said that she would like to come up with him , potter about Dundee while he 's having his medical then they will come here on Tuesday evening , or late Tuesday afternoon , and we go out for a meal , and then of course , she 'll be with me all day on Thursday because he goes back up to Dundee to his managers ' meeting , you see . |
| 16 | He relaxed with a happy grunt , and we lay peacefully for a bit longer . |
| 17 | Er , the Police Authority last year I think actually had to have an extra nine hundred thousand pounds of spending , the budget was funded by the constituent 's authorities , erm , and we 've already for next year in fact , made available effectively six hundred thousand pounds worth of extra spending by erm , various means , so I would hope that erm , the authority does use as , as much prudence and restraint in its financial affairs as possible , because of the , the effects on all , all concerned . |
| 18 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 19 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 20 | However , prizegiving was only about half an hour later than planned and we set off for home at a reasonable hour . |
| 21 | And we pray too for those whom we represent . |
| 22 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 23 | And they stop there for a bit , when they 've gone past the start . |
| 24 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 25 | Howard meets Phil Schaffer in various pubs , down there in the sea of lights — Phil knows the city intimately already — and they walk round for hours , talking and yawning and doing joky things . |
| 26 | Some are management development students , they are between twenty-eight and thirty-six years old and they stay here for fifteen weeks . |
| 27 | People who steal and murder are put in the prison-ships , and they stay there for years sometimes . |
| 28 | They bring together some twenty to twenty-five people , mostly from Third World countries , but including some aid administrators from Britain and other developed countries , and they stay together for between four and six weeks , working together in a wide range of different topics and with various objectives . |
| 29 | but I , I do n't know if you want a tape , there 's a carry film on , erm , it 's er , it 's a family and they go away for Christmas , you know , and er the little lad gets left by his self Jim |
| 30 | It is at the larva stage of their development when boring and feeding of the grubs takes place that the damage is caused because the adult beetles do not eat and they live only for a short time . |