Example sentences of "and [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege . |
| 32 | He marched the twins in the direction of the nearest station and prepared for a long , boring wait . |
| 33 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 34 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 35 | Both Dalton and Alexander , the First Lord of the Admiralty , argued at meetings of the committee that Germany should be deprived of war-making industries , though not to the extent of the ‘ pastoralisation ’ proposed by Henry Morgenthau , the US Secretary of the Treasury , and accepted for a time by Churchill and Roosevelt at their meeting at Quebec in September 1944 . |
| 36 | They announced plans for its complete redevelopment and applied for a certificate of immunity of listing . |
| 37 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 38 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 39 | ‘ XYZ ’ is the perfect kiss-off to everyone who raved against Moose in 1991 with such blinkered zeal , to all the people who sneered at shoe-gazing — a ‘ scene ’ defined , uniquely , by those who hated all of the bands they ill-informedly lumped together — for being one-dimensional and destined for a quick death . |
| 40 | She was panting , she realised , and hung for a moment on the newel post of the spiral stairs and waited for her heartbeat to calm down . |
| 41 | During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’ |
| 42 | The project was restarted in 1979 , and approved for a World Bank loan in 1985 . |
| 43 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 44 | Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water , put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night . |
| 45 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 46 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 47 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 48 | The idea is that an area consisting largely of derelict and/or vacant land should be landscaped and used for a variety of horticultural , leisure and recreational purposes , normally for a six-months period . |
| 49 | ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time . |
| 50 | Nestling peacefully amongst the mine sweepers and patrol vessels in Albert Dock was the P&O Thames sailing barge , Will , dressed overall with flags and used for a variety of on board functions during her stay . |
| 51 | Commercial Loans — either secured or unsecured , and used for a variety of purposes . |
| 52 | Edwards , possessed of a strong if traditional balladeer 's voice , wrote and performed for a variety of record labels , among them Studio One and Wirl . |
| 53 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 54 | Geraldine sat on the bed and thought for a moment . |
| 55 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 56 | Waking very cold and aching , Perdita saw little red flames flickering across the great blue arch of sky and thought for a terrified second that she was in the middle of a forest fire . |
| 57 | As they approached from the South , the pilots watched the flyingboat go down and land at Kalafrana , but at that moment Hancock saw two Bf109Es approaching , and thought for a moment that they were about to attack the Hurricanes . |
| 58 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 59 | I stopped to look at them , and thought for a moment they looked like prison doors , hiding evil secrets . |
| 60 | He looked very serious , and thought for a few seconds . |