Example sentences of "and [verb] for the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 2 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 3 | Dr Manfred Thaller , President of the International Association for History and Computing backed the seminar and arranged for the publication of its proceedings . |
| 4 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 5 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 6 | Blanche turned her biro slowly round in her fingers , meditating on the patterns created by the octagonal tube of plastic , and asked for the name of the dry cleaner 's . |
| 7 | Bishop Stratford , preaching on the text ‘ My head is sick ’ , announced the decision to depose the king nevertheless and asked for the assent of the commons . |
| 8 | Next I had yet another idea , I wrote to the American Women 's Club of Thailand and asked for the donation of a video player . |
| 9 | Joseph of Arimathaea , a member of the Sanhedrin who was obviously sympathetic to Jesus ( Matthew claims he had become a secret disciple ) , went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus . |
| 10 | He replied that there was no substance in the allegation of French unpreparedness in the Verdun sector and asked for the names of those who had given Galliéni the information so that they might be admonished . |
| 11 | As soon as they 'd gone , I got on the phone to Directory Enquiries and asked for the number of the Maidstone hospital . |
| 12 | This neomucisa contains all normal intestinal cell lineages and persists for the life of the animal . |
| 13 | In Chapman 's view , the foundation of Aston Villa 's long history of success was their ability to plan ahead and prepare for the departure of key players . |
| 14 | He watched him move quickly across the alley , and make for the patch of deep shadow under the iron stairs . |
| 15 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 16 | The vintage style Clean 1 is perfect for almost anything , while Clean 2 is enough to bring out the Mutt Lange in anyone — it 's so sparkly , and begs for the addition of some subtle effects . |
| 17 | It was possible that he would be detained and interned for the duration of the war which now seemed only hours or days away . |
| 18 | Five ml of H 2 O were added to the resin incubated mix , this was left to settle for 10 minutes , and 4 ml of supernatant was removed and examined for the presence of 1 4 C-citrulline by liquid scintillation counting . |
| 19 | Biopsies for histological preparation were fixed in Bouin 's solution , sectioned , stained with haematoxylin and eosin , Giemsa and Gram stain and examined for the presence of H pylori and signs of inflammation . |
| 20 | He turned and made for the stern of the boat , and disappeared below . |
| 21 | Signalling the sighting to the Home Fleet in Scapa Flow , he turned his vessel and made for the shelter of a fog bank . |
| 22 | These books defended Adolf Hitler 's foreign policies as no different from those of other imperialists , and argued for the development of a federal Europe , with communal control of all vital strategic areas . |
| 23 | ENGLAND shrugged off the loss of injured captain Chris Sheasby to beat CIS Bears 24–10 , Hong Kong 22–12 and Ponsonby ( NZ ) 26–0 and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Dubai Sevens rugby union tournament , where they face the Bahrain Warblers . |
| 24 | The parents moved in couples , greeting one another with false enthusiasm and competing for the attention of the staff . |
| 25 | ‘ Lighting can try and compensate for the lack of colour by creating certain moods . |
| 26 | Training might be goal-directed , but education must be pure and undertaken for the sake of the ‘ growth ’ of the child . |
| 27 | But in this respect Anselm belonged to the past , and one of the chief symptoms of this in his later years is the determination with which , against all the interests and policy of successive popes after Gregory VII , he argued the case , and fought for the principle of the primatial authority of Canterbury throughout the whole of the British Isles . |
| 28 | In a sudden blur of motion , he leapt away from Grant and sprinted for the cover of the trees . |
| 29 | The ability to manage people is the more necessary at a time when a number of different lay ministries are being encouraged and developed for the conduct of worship . |
| 30 | It sets out to achieve its objective of protection by promoting the kind of policies and practices which it believes would enable the rural environment to be utilised and developed for the good of society without destroying aesthetic and spiritual beauty , and by opposing other policies and practices which in its view would have such an effect . |