Example sentences of "and [pron] [pron] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |
| 2 | The view that has found favour amongst those involved with Earth Mysteries , and one which seems to spring out of the page when these legends are brought together , is that most folklore associated with ancient sites can best be interpreted in terms of the survival of the old pagan religion and , one of its wellsprings , the existence of some form of energy which the ancient people were sensitive to and which they used for healing and in their rituals . |
| 3 | Indeed , the carbon-based molecules of which living things are constructed , and which they employ for life 's purposes , are so various and can be so complex that the study of biochemistry might at first sight seem quite impossible . |
| 4 | Bruce had a simple pendulum of the kind people employ to locate water , and which he used for diagnosis . |
| 5 | Stirling sent his men from Siwa back to Kabrit and he himself made for Cairo , where he arrived in the midst of what became known as ‘ The Flap ’ . |
| 6 | Er and anyone who works for Trading Standards will tell you it 's not true . |
| 7 | And what we having for lunch ? |
| 8 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 9 | It may take anywhere from two to five or six hours , depending on the wood and the wind and what you had for breakfast and things like that . |
| 10 | The initial dialogue too , includes queries about when you wish to retire and what you require for breakfast . |
| 11 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |