Example sentences of "for and [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His main task was to prepare for and win a general election . |
| 2 | The systematic activation of prior knowledge can act to prepare for and deepen the likely response to a text . |
| 3 | Turning towards him , her face flushed , her fingers reached down , searching for and caressing the hard nakedness there . |
| 4 | We care for and protect the natural environment , often working with national and local conservation bodies . |
| 5 | Remember colleagues , it was our union under the leadership of Will Thorn that pushed for and formed the Labour Party . |
| 6 | So you can vote for and join the Labour Party in Bangkok or Belgrade but not in Belfast . |
| 7 | Anyway , his push-bike would help to keep him for and conserve the precious petrol for more exciting excursions . |
| 8 | Crucial to the financial stability is the fact that Highlander is recognised as a non profit-making organisation , and as such it has successfully applied for and sustained a tax-exempt status from the Federal revenue agency . |
| 9 | The very exhaustive treatise Contemporary Percussion by Reginald Smith Brindle ( O.U.P. ) goes in great detail into the technique of writing for and playing a vast number of percussion instruments and contains quotations from many modern works , as well as a 45 rpm recording of the sounds of many of the tuned and untuned instruments which have been used by modern composers . |
| 10 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |