Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 2 | All of these things encouraged the movie moguls to put their faith back into entertainment , to make good movies , and to go out looking for new and bigger audiences . |
| 3 | What is more , these estimates assume a well-maintained canal and do not allow for excessive leakage . |
| 4 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 5 | Today 's factory farms , which dispense with straw for bedding and have little use for natural manure , turn out thousands of litres of slurry — dung and urine mixed with water — every day . |
| 6 | In 1952 , in an article entitled ‘ Discourse Analysis ’ , he analysed an advertisement for hair tonic — from which he coyly omitted the brand name — and set about searching for grammatical rules to explain why one sentence followed another . |