Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benjamin turned and shouted for more wine . |
| 2 | Gbedemah unselfishly withdrew and stood for another seat . |
| 3 | She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled . |
| 4 | So she learns to give all her stories happy endings and take her troubles to bed with her — after she has cooked , cleaned , washed and ironed and prepared for another day . |
| 5 | At the end of my five laps , I wheedled and wangled for another session , saying that the photographer needed more time to get his shots . |
| 6 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |
| 7 | They were often accompanied on such excursions by Christopher Sykes , who has recalled one wet Saturday afternoon when , in the Hospital gardens , they watched a football match between the Marylebone dustmen and the Chelsea Municipal Maintenance Staff : " The forlorn scene fascinated Eliot and in spite of the cold and the drizzle he stayed and watched for several minutes " . |