Example sentences of "and for [det] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |
| 2 | One day , he thought , we shall probably know each other , and for that reason he turned away from the window , not feeling quite equal to meeting the unashamed curiosity of their glances as they came nearer . |
| 3 | We had Friday afternoons off and for that job I got £16 a week . " |
| 4 | ‘ On the new album I went to extremes , and for each song I had two or three complete lead breaks worked out for every solo , prior to actually going in to make the album . |
| 5 | My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents . |
| 6 | But he had a fever , and for many days he lay there unconscious . |
| 7 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 8 | It was the responsibility of the Justices of the forest to see that the Forest rights of the Crown were not usurped , and for this purpose he made frequent use of sworn inquiries by the foresters and verderers and juries of knights and free men of the neighbourhood . |
| 9 | brought the downfall of the Asante nation and for this reason they had to bury their money underground so that more money was hidden underground than on the earth . |
| 10 | Metabolism of butyrate was optimal at 1 mM ( Fig 3 ) and for this reason we decided to use 1 mM butyrate for the remainder of the study . |
| 11 | His diminutive figure was always to be seen during battles with the opposition , and for this reason he gained exceptionally early admission to the Rowdies as a kind of unofficial mascot . |
| 12 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
| 13 | ‘ And for some reason they thought you were a fellow deadbeat ? ’ |
| 14 | He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it . |
| 15 | The Feldwebel saw this and for some reason it worried him . |
| 16 | But he was a big man and for some reason I had an unhealthy picture of him being more than able to do something unspeakable to Tonka toys . |
| 17 | We played practice rounds with Greg and for some reason I got talking and joking with him a lot . |
| 18 | On my way to the pay ‘ phone near the gents , I noticed the door to the back room was open , and for some reason I decided to have a look . |
| 19 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements . |
| 21 | Dane was gone — he 'd made that promise the night before , and for some reason she felt sure he was , despite all , a man of his word . |
| 22 | And for some reason he found himself drawing a Spitfire . |
| 23 | On the other hand , they would have been inspired by the promise that they , as loyal adherents of the Messiah , would be granted a unique recompense for their fidelity and for any suffering they had incurred . |
| 24 | He turned into the one occupied by his stepmother , switched off the motor , and for several moments they sat looking at the house whose drawn blinds and closed windows seemed to proclaim its emptiness . |
| 25 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 26 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 27 | Previously , " the classics " ( or some of them ) were a possession of the educated classes in general and for those classes they constituted a natural part of experience , forming a continuum with modern literatures and ideas . |