Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 2 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 3 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 4 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 5 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 6 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 7 | She rose and stooped for the shell . |
| 8 | Without a word , Roberts rose and headed for the service hatch . |
| 9 | They were equally trusting in sending country customers goods ‘ on approval ’ , selected from catalogues received in the mail which they retained and paid for by cheque , or returned . |
| 10 | He stopped and thought for a moment . |
| 11 | When he realized that Adam was not one of his colleagues , he stopped and reached for the revolver in his belted holster . |
| 12 | He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it . |
| 13 | After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull . |
| 14 | Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake . |
| 15 | He never moved but waited for her to come to him , and when she did his arm came around her with a swift , protective action that was not lost at all on Maggie . |
| 16 | His evergreens include I 'll be Seeing You , Katie , Dear Hearts and Gentle People , and I Can Dream , Ca n't I. Among films he scored or wrote for are Hellzapoppin , Anchors Aweigh , Love is a Many Splendored Thing , and Myra Breckinridge . |
| 17 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 18 | Instinct attached my hands to the reins as she accelerated and headed for home with me in tow . |
| 19 | His practice was an entirely common-law one : he advised and appeared for parties on libel actions ; he advised on contracts and similar matters dealt with in the common-law courts . |
| 20 | It is his word that makes us aware that Jesus Christ came and died for us , that God loves us . |
| 21 | he came and asked for the duster and the polish |
| 22 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 23 | Feted as a genius at twenty-one , wined and dined for his striking originality , the world his oyster and a nice vivacious wife to boot … |
| 24 | He said yesterday : ‘ It would be my biggest ever game for the club , and it 'll be the biggest since I played and scored for Portsmouth in the FA Cup semi-finals last season . |
| 25 | As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them . |
| 26 | With remarkable skill he identified and presented for selection a group of some of the leading statesmen concerned with their welfare . |
| 27 | To this she agreed and sat for Deverell , William Holman Hunt [ q.v. ] , and for ( Sir ) John Everett Millais [ q.v. ] as the drowned Ophelia . |
| 28 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 29 | It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house . |
| 30 | We ask this in the name of him who lived and died for us even Jesus Christ our Lord . |