Example sentences of "and [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 2 | Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ God grant it ! ’ and clung for a moment to the great , warm , vital hand that could put heart into her even now . |
| 4 | She pinned old movie stills to the black beams so that the guests could play at guessing what they were from and gazed for too long at a film-still of Peter Finch and a male lover , pondering the nature of sexual passion . |
| 5 | Canon Wheeler allowed his eye to wander around the handsome room lit by the full , secure English sunlight and gazed for a moment through the window at the spire of Medewich 's beautiful Cathedral . |
| 6 | Out at sea flocks hovered and plunged for fish . |
| 7 | Helen let out a wail and plunged for her doll . |
| 8 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 9 | He felt like the boy 's father ; he loved and cared for Grégoire as if he were his son . |
| 10 | He has done evil things , but to me he is still the little boy I loved and cared for . |
| 11 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 12 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 13 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 14 | It was Don who made the effort ; he bought the local paper and looked at ads for houses ; he phoned estate agents and asked for lists of properties . |
| 15 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |
| 16 | ‘ We have sent it back and asked for a translation . ’ |
| 17 | He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration . |
| 18 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 19 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 20 | He told them how morally indefensible was the policy of apartheid , and asked for prayer for Africa . |
| 21 | And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back . |
| 22 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 23 | The RAC removed 89 parts from the stack and asked for replacements from the spares stock . |
| 24 | Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband . |
| 25 | In Peking he contacted missionaries and asked for baptism . |
| 26 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 27 | Mr Endara was told of the planned attack , and asked for his support , which he apparently granted , saying that he was ready to become the new leader if the US could topple the Noriega regime . |
| 28 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 29 | I went to window three and asked for a ticket to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 30 | He went to an Indian fortune-teller and asked for advice . |