Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 2 | The number of enquiries which a bureau receives can not be a measure of the value of or need for the service . |
| 3 | In this state his spirit was said to fly to the other world of spirits and there discover the cause of and cure for a person 's illness , the identity of a malefactor , or the nature of events destined to occur . |
| 4 | The poems are full of imagery of and praise for the Bible : |
| 5 | What it means to think of and work for an audience . |
| 6 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 7 | With each year that passed , peasant interest in and support for the status quo would increase . |
| 8 | That bombshell , coming from the Labour party at a time when Nottinghamshire miners are continually breaking production records , shows Labour 's lack of faith in and support for the coal industry , and why Nottinghamshire miners abandoned socialism in 1985 . |
| 9 | Although Pittsburgh was severely hit by the decline in the steel industry , its tertiary and quaternary sectors were thriving and there were demands on the city to respond to and cater for the large number of firms locating and expanding their professional and managerial activities there . |
| 10 | Effective school management uses external initiatives as a prompt to and support for the logical next stage of a school 's development . |