Example sentences of "[adv prt] and for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He never worried about exhibiting his work : never came to steal from neighbours ; he lived in and for himself ’ . |
| 2 | Nothing is more touching and sad than to see how these people — cast out and despised by everyone including their kin , living in and for their regular ‘ balls ’ where they compete to dress up to act out , for a moment , the roles they would like to play in real life , and know they ca n't — reconstruct their own human groups . |
| 3 | The teacher works , whether consciously or unconsciously on his own lines and not in and for his children . |
| 4 | Here he is on the importance of the view of ‘ the other ’ to one 's sense of self : ‘ Self consciousness exists in and for itself , when , and by the fact that , it so exists for another ; that is , it exists only in being acknowledged ’ ( Hegel , 1979 , p. 111 ) . |
| 5 | In conceiving of systems as made up of more or less functionally autonomous elements … the elements are not merely ‘ parts ’ but are seen to exist in and for ‘ themselves ’ . |
| 6 | In keeping with a dominant impulse within inter-war English studies , he concludes that " Literature constitutes a body of knowledge to be studied in and for itself without regard to any educational value it may have … [ since ] its being is its own justification . " |
| 7 | We took in and for and still use it . |
| 8 | I had n't asked him how he thought he was going to get in and for one terrible minute I thought he was going to shoot the lock and kick the door in . |
| 9 | Well we were trying to remember the lines to that and she came in and for about half an hour she gave a rendition . |
| 10 | Although people can go in and for it . |
| 11 | If necessary , Shaw then adds details ( who sued whom ) , and a panel of celebrities is asked who won and why , or who got sent down and for how long . |
| 12 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 13 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 14 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 15 | ‘ I will , but calm down and for heaven 's sakes stand still ! ’ |
| 16 | However , on May 31 there were reports of widespread support among civil servants and soldiers for the military rulers to step down and for a rapid handover of power to a civilian government . |
| 17 | The hijackers jumped down and for a minute it looked as if they were going to try to fight their way out . |
| 18 | Now put me down and for goodness ’ sake behave ! ’ |
| 19 | The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility . |
| 20 | The Church of purgatory was the " suffering " Church and the dead for Innocent existed only through and for the living . |
| 21 | A very gallant gentleman at the next table came over and for no particular reason , kissed my hand ! |
| 22 | Soon it would all be over and for the water sport enthusiasts , this was the final opportunity to ride the crest of the wave until the next bore in March . |
| 23 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 24 | For they belong to the plantation owners from then on and for ever ! ’ |
| 25 | He was issued with a ‘ Soldier 's Catechism ’ which asked , ‘ What side are you on and for whom do you fight ? ’ |
| 26 | If only every night could be like this , from now on and for ever . |
| 27 | Now that 's an internal target for us to work on and for you to have fixed in your mind because everything above four thousand pound you will get forty five percent commission instead of thirty . |
| 28 | Er , the European project goes on and for many of the newer generations in this place , it 's not longer an article of faith er but a part of the political landscape that has to be dealt with on merit and it 's all the more ludicrous therefore Mr Deputy Speaker , that the Conservatives ' internal divisions over Maastricht have led to a situation where candidates for the ever more important European elections are only now being selected in certain seats , just fourteen weeks before the election . |
| 29 | Rose tried to throw her off and for a moment they became an indistinguishable tangle of clawing arms and jerking feet . |
| 30 | We had Friday afternoons off and for that job I got £16 a week . " |