Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 2 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 3 | He deals , breaks and rides out for a local National Hunt trainer to keep in the sport and would be delighted with any financial help — large or small . |
| 4 | And look out for a new Spanish star , Jésus Montoya , who showed so brilliantly in the Vuelta d'Espana in May . |
| 5 | Leave the summit walking south and look out for a shallow gully leading towards a steep grass slope beside a burn and on to Glenlicht House . |
| 6 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 7 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |
| 8 | A band played and onlookers waved and cheered as men , women and children wedged themselves into the tub carriages and settled down for a good day out . |
| 9 | Without difficulty I found a Bed and Breakfast house , equally smart and highly polished , and settled down for a pre-exploratory nap . |
| 10 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 11 | I 'm going to recommend that you are taken off duty immediately and sent back for a three-month intensive retraining schedule , ’ |
| 12 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
| 13 | A census of birds sighted each day throughout the year , and kept up for a considerable number of years , is an invaluable source of information to all concerned with the monitoring of bird numbers . |
| 14 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 15 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 16 | All appointees have to provide a urine sample — even Pamela Harriman , the new ambassador to Paris , had to stand in line , clutching her paper cup — and turn up for a face-to-face interview , which usually lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours . |
| 17 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 18 | Going into the first Test at Port-of-Spain under the leadership of Mike Denness , England were put in and bowled out for a meagre 131 ( Greig top-scored with 37 ) . |
| 19 | She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw . |
| 20 | So far so good : then you select a soiled dish , collect some scraps from the garbage , and settle down for a short wait . |
| 21 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |
| 22 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |
| 23 | After a particularly barbarous game of Murder Ball in the school gym , I stripped off and queued up for a quick soaking , along with 40 other pre-pubescent boys . |
| 24 | Ami Popper , a 21-year-old Israeli civilian dressed in an Army uniform and carrying his brother 's Army-issue M-16 rifle , drove to the area from his home in Rishon Le Zion and rounded up for a bogus security check a group of Gazans , whom he then sprayed with bullets , killing seven and wounding nine others . |
| 25 | And zips out for a quick change into a respectable blazer ( one of Aunt Rebecca 's unused presents , a recent salvo in the family campaign to smarten up the recalcitrant niece ) and an unrumpled pair of cords . |
| 26 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |