Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 2 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 3 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 4 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 5 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 6 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 7 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 8 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 9 | He said it was the government 's intention to privatize 30-40 per cent of state assets and he asked for a six-month moratorium on trade union pay demands . |
| 10 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 11 | According to C.-in-C. of CIS Armed Forces Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , it now remained for Ukraine to recognize Russia 's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons located on its territory , and he called for a Russian-Ukrainian summit to discuss the issue . |
| 12 | Eric Stephen said he thought that a of method getting people into the scheme was ‘ off the rails ’ and he called for a large input of help and direction while Andrew Macfarlane said that unless the end user guaranteed a premium farming leaders could ‘ forget FASL ’ . |
| 13 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |