Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] for [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurse del Puablo is widely and justly celebrated for her skilled hands , hot thighs and soft lips , her pretty belly , bad ass and good tits . |
| 2 | He also devoted a good deal of his investigations to the extraordinary satin bower-bird , a native of the area and so called for its remarkable habit of building and decorating a sort of stage-set , in which it would perform ritual mating dances . |
| 3 | Lord , your will is that the world 's resources should be shared by all men ; we pray against greed and selfishness in the use of resources , and especially pray for your guiding hand on relief efforts along the Iraqi-Jordanian border . |
| 4 | Lord , your will is that the world 's resources should be shared by all men ; we pray against greed and selfishness in the use of resources , and especially pray for your guiding hand on relief efforts in the famine areas of Africa . |
| 5 | It is an offence for a shopkeeper to sell solvent based products to anyone under the age of 18 , if they know , or have reasonable cause to believe , that the products are to be abused , and not used for their normal purpose . |
| 6 | Sir Alastair Currie writes : George Montgomery was nationally and internationally respected for his distinguished contributions to pathology and medicine . |
| 7 | Whereas previous schemes , such as that of Dewey , presented an enumerated list of subjects in hierarchical layout with appended notation ( e.g. decimal numbers ) to express the system in practice , the Colon Classification distinguishes a range of " facets " in each major subject area , which the classifier combines ( like a set of parts ) to form an extended symbol which both expresses the specific subject and its relationships and also allows for its easy insertion in and retrieval from a store sequence ( e.g. a shelf ) . |
| 8 | The exhibition in London was seen last year in New York and San Francisco , dispersed and then reassembled for its only European showing . |
| 9 | She was a careful , punctilious girl but one who did not like responsibility , not even the responsibility of knowing when and how to lie for her superior . |
| 10 | The left-wing Colina opposition , dominated by the PRD and previously discredited for its past support of Noriega , gained ground , winning five of the nine vacant seats in the National Assembly [ see p. 37957 ] . |