Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 2 | The offer coincided with a move to separate the Cheltenham Schools of Architecture and Art , with which he disagreed , so he applied for the post and succeeded despite his now apparent and debilitating illness . |
| 3 | The present owners of Pool Bank were previously the tenants , and during their tenancy they cared for the gallery and strengthened it , and now as owners will watch over it with loving care . |
| 4 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |
| 5 | ‘ She lived for the family and they all worshipped her . ’ |
| 6 | A program knowing something about people 's typical behaviour in restaurants is able to infer ( without needing to be explicitly told ) that if John asked for the bill and then left , he probably paid the bill before leaving . |
| 7 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 8 | Quietly he asked for the Standard and handed across his money between the jutting arms ; he did n't want any trouble . |
| 9 | he came and asked for the duster and the polish |
| 10 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 11 | ‘ Now dear , ’ said Mum ‘ Your brother asked for the salt and I suggest that it might be polite if you were to do what he asked . ’ |
| 12 | Thus she stayed on the back-benches , retained her roots in Merseyside , and fought for the people and ideals which she had always supported . |
| 13 | She made for the fires and the sudden yellow flashes that lit up the central complex of buildings . |
| 14 | Somehow we escaped and made for the Wig and Dickle and suitable refreshments . |
| 15 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 16 | He was at his most sincere when he argued for the South and defended it ferociously against the feebleness of Yankee and British snobberies and prejudice . |
| 17 | You got for the daughters and you 're gon na get them some , two hankies to go with it . |
| 18 | Basically it provided for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered through the NHS under the central direction of the Minister of Health . |
| 19 | Like the young men in Paris , he also designed for the opera and ballet , and then went on to design the famous stained glass windows of the new Coventry Cathedral . |
| 20 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 21 | The Daimler station bus with a shooting brake body , also used for the staff and luggage . |
| 22 | Megarry VC found for the plaintiff and he said that four elements were necessary in testing for confidential quality : 1 . |
| 23 | MacKinnon J. found for the defendant and his decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeal ( Greer and Greene L.JJ. , Talbot J. ) . |
| 24 | The following day , the visitors headed for the field and toured LASMO 's Santiago field gathering and pumping facility . |
| 25 | By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them . |
| 26 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 27 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |
| 28 | He freelanced for the BBC and several of the other regional companies and also ran his own cassette business . |
| 29 | I suppose she was the sort who would normally have been commissioned , but , all credit to her , she opted for the ranks and she was certainly finding out how the other half lived . |
| 30 | Leeming signalled for the pad and took it from Duncan . |