Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] for a " 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 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 3 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 8 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 9 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 10 | I go and wait about for a min , half a sec , ha , you know just wait for about ten seconds I 've forgotten what I 'm supposed to say wha , can you remind you ? |
| 11 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 12 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 13 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 14 | We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well . |
| 15 | Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack . |
| 16 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 17 | She looked up and waved as the Golf drove past and when Melissa had put it away and locked the garage door , she rammed her fork into the ground and strolled over for a chat . |
| 18 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 19 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 20 | Why do n't you take the duty room and go and lie down for a couple of hours ? ’ |
| 21 | BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint . |
| 22 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 23 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 24 | And look out for a new Spanish star , Jésus Montoya , who showed so brilliantly in the Vuelta d'Espana in May . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | SHOULD Selkirk fail to make the grade and drop out for a fourth spell in Division II , they will at least on this occasion descend with honour . |
| 27 | The price of oil would probably rise to more than $50 a barrel and dig in for a stay of some months . |
| 28 | She unstrapped the harness , and glanced around for a spot to hide the acres of silk canopy . |
| 29 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 30 | His wet , cold body was aching and calling out for a hot meal and warm bed . |