Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 2 | When the mobs rush forward in the Mall they are taking part in the last circus of a civilization that has lost faith in itself , and sold itself for a splendid triviality . |
| 3 | A furtive junior diplomat bowing and scraping his way out of the interview section of the Lefortovo , ogling the KGB man and thanking him for a fifteen-minute access to a prisoner for whom the key was now thrown far away . |
| 4 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 5 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 6 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 7 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 8 | Put it in a box in your guitar case and save it for a rainy day . |
| 9 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 10 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 11 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 12 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 13 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |
| 14 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 15 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 16 | Erm you can phone them up and ask them for a Yellow Pages listing and they and they 'll give at random a listing from the Yellow Pages in whatever area you ask for . |
| 17 | As he leapt to the attack again , he uttered a hoarse , nerve-shattering scream , the purpose of which was to startle his opponent momentarily and distract him for a fatal fraction of time . |
| 18 | Only today matters , so forget about tomorrow , pack your bags , and prepare yourself for a magical holiday . |
| 19 | I only came to say good-bye and thank you for a lovely day . ’ |
| 20 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 21 | Come now — get your hat and join us for a quick walk . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Come now — get your hat and join us for a quick walk , ’ said Mr Utterson . |
| 23 | He paused again , as if the memory of that year had stopped him ; and to prepare me for a new facet of himself , a new shift . |