Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former met rarely and for purely formal purposes . |
| 2 | Er , the European project goes on and for many of the newer generations in this place , it 's not longer an article of faith er but a part of the political landscape that has to be dealt with on merit and it 's all the more ludicrous therefore Mr Deputy Speaker , that the Conservatives ' internal divisions over Maastricht have led to a situation where candidates for the ever more important European elections are only now being selected in certain seats , just fourteen weeks before the election . |
| 3 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 4 | ‘ He never worried about exhibiting his work : never came to steal from neighbours ; he lived in and for himself ’ . |
| 5 | Now that 's an internal target for us to work on and for you to have fixed in your mind because everything above four thousand pound you will get forty five percent commission instead of thirty . |
| 6 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |
| 7 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 8 | The ‘ genderless norm ’ — purporting to speak for the whole of humanity — has once and for all been revealed as eminently qualifiable , if not downright specious . |
| 9 | In single-step selection the entities selected or sorted , pebbles or whatever they are , are sorted once and for all . |
| 10 | The figures for black youngsters excluded indefinitely and for a fixed period were also above average . |
| 11 | He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot . |
| 12 | ‘ It will never be healed until the day the mystery is finally solved once and for all . ’ |
| 13 | On the assumption that people are motivated by monetary reward , it was argued that this would provide incentives for them to work harder and for entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs . |
| 14 | Fear of death had vanished once and for all . |
| 15 | CPRW hopes that the Secretary of State will grasp the opportunity now before him to alter the pattern of development which has characterised this site for several decades , by challenging once and for all the aspiration of the current and any future owner , to establish a large and permanent residence for their tourist operations on the cliffs above Amroth . |
| 16 | Austin Currie condemned the police action in blocking their route , and said that NICRA would be organising more parades , which would not stop at Thomas Street : ‘ O'Neill and those Orange bigots behind him [ will ] realise once and for all that we are on our way forward . |
| 17 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 18 | His eyes narrowed dangerously and for a split-second Polly held her breath . |
| 19 | It does not take much for that dress to be torn off and for what lies beneath to be revealed . ’ |
| 20 | Above all the aeroplane — in its infancy in 1914-18- threatened to transform the nature of warfare , eliminating once and for all the distinction between soldiers and civilians . |
| 21 | Because she had to know once and for all what was going on , that was why . |
| 22 | Charlton Curry , the second placed Liberal , said that Conservatism had ‘ departed once and for all ’ from Co Durham and ( with a nod to Mr Fallon and one or two of his predecessors ) was just about right . |
| 23 | A long quarter swell built up and for four days and nights the carrack raced along , slipping backwards down each wave as it overtook her , wallowing heavily as the next one came up astern , and making a dazzling white wake that trailed astern like a huge , ragged scar across the aquamarine ocean . |
| 24 | And I was walking past and for some silly reason I felt like putting my fist through a couple of windows . |
| 25 | For walking out and for Sundays he had a cord jacket and cord trousers . |
| 26 | It was as if the sun had suddenly come out and for all his age and infirmity , Lovat caught his breath . |
| 27 | You remember Peter when he was , er , totally different context , but the lesson is the same , when he was when Jesus called him to walk on the water and he starts walking , and then , he looks around and for what e , for whatever reason he starts sinking , the moment he calls out help Jesus reaches out and lifts him back him rescues him . |
| 28 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 29 | The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility . |
| 30 | If I do n't come up when he goes away and for the while he 's on just say he 's |