Example sentences of "and [vb past] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 2 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 3 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 4 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 5 | Benjamin turned and shouted for more wine . |
| 6 | For example , I recently came across the word ‘ homerun ’ and tried for several seconds to read it as ‘ homer-un ’ , until I saw the correct morpheme structure . |
| 7 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 8 | Colchester police issued a photograph of Lisa and appealed for any sightings of her to be reported . |
| 9 | In his 1935 budget speech , Neville Chamberlain , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , commented on the implications of a decreasing birth rate for an imperial power and appealed for more babies . |
| 10 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 11 | You told her you had n't been able to get her out of your mind and begged for another chance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The snow was beginning to turn to rain next morning and , although the ground was white right to the shores , we all went ashore and walked for several hours . |
| 14 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 15 | He was instituted there on 3 May 1631 and served for several years . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Kathryn Sykes has run a pottery , and worked for many years as a window dresser and she has used her sense of style and colour to decorate each room individually . |
| 19 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 20 | I feared as well that Mills might not be dead after all , that he 'd recovered miraculously and decided for some reason not to go to the police . |
| 21 | ‘ I was very upset and felt for those players who played , ’ Durie said . |
| 22 | She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled . |
| 23 | She did n't want to hear , but she held her breath and listened for any sound . |
| 24 | Although it was dark and the road twisted away in both directions , the undertaker had stood still and listened for several seconds before venturing up the steps to the front door . |
| 25 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
| 26 | His work matured , even if there is no question that he abused himself and died for that reason . |
| 27 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 28 | And he removed his hat and discussed for some minutes the shortcomings of his wife Rita who had been in the land-army when they met . |
| 29 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 30 | She had gone to the doctor after her opening 77 and hoped for some kind of medication which would have allowed her to carry on , but all the medical man would prescribe was a three-day rest . |