Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably for one reason or another . |
| 2 | He and Judith had married , and lived happily for five years , until , for reasons he still did n't understand , their joy had foundered , and the two had become one . |
| 3 | Then the king 's son took her home to his father 's palace , and they were married , and lived happily for many years . |
| 4 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 5 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 6 | Sathasivam Krishna Kumar ( " Kittu " ) , 31 , regarded as the LTTE number two and a member of its central committee , who had first arrived in the United Kingdom in October 1989 and applied unsuccessfully for political asylum there in August 1990 after the breakdown of peace talks with the Sri Lankan government , was told in early August 1991 that he had to leave the UK by Aug. 7 or face deportation , for having abused his refugee status by collecting funds and trying to procure arms . |
| 7 | When the full meeting of commissioners also failed to agree " without the authority of their lords " , they made a truce until 5 November and reported back for further instructions . |
| 8 | Good location for local community and used extensively for other events/activities . |
| 9 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 10 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 11 | Homes are now small , compact and designed principally for two adults and their children . |
| 12 | Kaysen has pointed out that : ‘ [ d ] ecisions as to the technical areas which will be systematically explored by research and development divisions and decisions as to what scientific and technical novelties will be translated into new products and processes and tried out for economic viability have very deep effects . |
| 13 | He started the car by letting it run downhill — Maxim had insisted they park so that there would be no give-away noise of the starter- and drove steadily for several miles . |
| 14 | Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half . |
| 15 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 16 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 17 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 18 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 19 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 20 | When he reached the guardroom he stopped and turned round for one last look at the parade ground . |
| 21 | Marked bays or shelving for each product type stocked should be allocated and reserved specifically for those products . |
| 22 | He was ordered complete rest and convalesced abroad for eight months before resuming work as consultant for the Skipton–Lancaster railway , at first jointly with Charles Vignoles [ q.v. ] and then as sole consultant . |
| 23 | He was on the other side of the road , saw me watching him , stopped , turned and walked slowly for fifty yards in the direction he had come . |
| 24 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 25 | This time there was no mistake made , he was known , and killed not for another , but for himself . ’ |
| 26 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 27 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 28 | Wood changed the compass course and flew on for 20 minutes , but their next bearing from Darwin indicated that they were even further north of track . |
| 29 | I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years . |
| 30 | So , being a nosey bugger , which I am , I went into David 's room and looked around for some evidence of what actually might have happened that weekend because I was completely stunned . |