Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] and [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also a source of food and sport for Lithuanians who ride and ski in their forests and hunt game and prepare it for the table . |
| 2 | Having grasped the use of silence you now have to quieten your own brain , stop it muttering away to itself about all the things you need to do and may forget , stop it reacting and getting on its high horse when all it needs to do is to absorb information and store it for future reference . |
| 3 | When the platoon is ambushed , Barnes shoots Elias and leaves him for dead . |
| 4 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
| 5 | However , having started back at the club it has become apparent that the club has no intention of coaching last season 's players to highlight weaknesses and prepare them for the higher level of rugby . |
| 6 | Mechanical filtration is anything , like filter wood , used to strain and collect particles and hold them for removal . |
| 7 | Furthermore when he does give way and claim it for his own , he loses it almost immediately to Gollum , who bites off Ring and finger with it . |
| 8 | General practitioners are available to identify problems and refer them for further investigation , and to cooperate with the hospitals for long-term treatment . |
| 9 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 10 | The expression of faith found in The Westminster Confession tells us , ‘ Man 's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever . ’ |
| 11 | That is why the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him for ever . |
| 12 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 13 | On the basis of the principle of participation , for example , it is possible for man to justify controlling nature and using it for his own ends . |
| 14 | We knew we were safe , so long as they could n't spot individuals and target them for later , and in the darkness the Danuese let the malais know what they thought of them . |
| 15 | As part of this exercise we will perform a ‘ practice run ’ with the company 's executives to check the areas where they will be asked questions and to prepare them for the meetings with would be acquirors . |
| 16 | " I had to be careful lest I did n't say to myself " I 've served God and done something for Him , now perhaps here is a relationship that will offer me happiness and marriage " . |
| 17 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 18 | All you do is add water and leave it for a month . |
| 19 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 20 | Like my man in Hampstead , he does n't trust people to collect money and use it for the purpose they say they will . |
| 21 | He did some work for A V Roe , erecting aeroplanes and preparing them for test and delivery flights . |
| 22 | Emily found herself inundated with people wanting to make orders and cursed herself for not being prepared . |
| 23 | After attacking Fiona and leaving her for dead , he later returned and repeatedly slashed her throat , ignoring her pleas for mercy . |
| 24 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |