Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the king 's son took her home to his father 's palace , and they were married , and lived happily for many years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange 's being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . ’ |
| 4 | Order large Perrier and hiccup mournfully for half hour while fat bald man laments Nigel Lawson . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Marked bays or shelving for each product type stocked should be allocated and reserved specifically for those products . |
| 7 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 8 | Cover and set aside for several hours or overnight , stirring occasionally if passing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 11 | I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years . |
| 12 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 13 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 14 | She sobbed and sniffed and struggled incomprehensibly for several moments , fighting to control her tears . |
| 15 | Such a curriculum had served well , and did so for many years afterwards , that small percentage ( less than 10$ ) who enjoyed grammar school education and were marked out to be the leaders of the nation . |
| 16 | As often as possible , they should invite Fido to play and play nicely for some time so Fido enjoys himself . |
| 17 | She has played and recorded regularly for many years with the Melos String Quartet of Stuttgart . |
| 18 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 19 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |