Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 2 | He was also a member of the XL Club and played for the local Lloyds Bank XI . |
| 3 | In 1878 he arrived in the United States and studied for the Unitarian ministry at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania . |
| 4 | We flew to San Diego on the West Coast where we hired a car and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas . |
| 5 | She picked up her jacket and handbag and headed for the distant clubhouse . |
| 6 | On behalf of all local authority caterers , I thank Joe Hyam for his kind words and support for the local authority caterers . |
| 7 | The manifesto condemned the invasion of Kuwait and called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces . |
| 8 | The Duchess of Gloucester , as Patron , visits the offices of Counsel and Care for the Elderly , at 16 Bonny Street , London NW1 . |
| 9 | 11 October : The Duchess of Gloucester , Patron of Counsel and Care for the Elderly , today visited the Counsel 's new offices at 16 Bonny Street , London NW1 . |
| 10 | Details of provision can be obtained from social services and from organisations such as Counsel and Care for the Elderly and GRACE . |
| 11 | He then went to South Africa with the FA summer touring side and played for the national team in one of the representative games . |
| 12 | You get the end of season and it 's if you look at the labels and go for the decent labels then you do n't get sort of , quite reasonable quality . |
| 13 | Externally , in his relations with other villages , he becomes the vehicle and focus for the xenophobic fear and animosity between rival communities . |
| 14 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 15 | With the birth less than six weeks away , Jacqui is juggling a hectic schedule between work and planning for the new arrival . |
| 16 | An essential element in job creation is the provision of training for school leavers and retraining for the long term unemployed . |
| 17 | As a result , Labour thinking began to lay more stress on state control , on the need to take over at the centre and then to redistribute wealth and plan for the whole country . |
| 18 | We do not want them to inherit all our problems when it is their responsibility to create the wealth and care for the increased number of elderly and aged people in this country . |
| 19 | That done , the wee dandy , roofed by a wig of blazing defiance , hooked thumbs into his waistcoat pockets and sauntered for the bar-top city heights . |
| 20 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 21 | But hit-man Fashanu used his 30th birthday party to dismiss Shearer and call for the international return of Arsenal 's Ian Wright . |
| 22 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |
| 23 | So I left Derek and Brian by the door of the pub and headed for the open country . |
| 24 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 25 | She rose gracefully to her feet and made for the front door , with Melissa following . |
| 26 | The requirement that homes should be a haven of peace and rest for the male breadwinner has set up a tension with an architectural notion of " rationality " which proclaimed bare simplicity , tidiness , and the importance of cooking and cleaning as work processes . |
| 27 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 28 | Other related activities include membership of a westen European EDIFACT board and support for the British Standards Institution 's EDI activities . |
| 29 | Unreality supervened again as Argentina fired its President Galtieri and called for the immediate withdrawal of British forces . |
| 30 | Whatever level of public expenditure proves practicable , and however it is distributed , the primary source of support and care for the elderly people are informal and voluntary … |