Example sentences of "and [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it .
2 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation …
3 Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox .
4 In deaf clubs and institutes throughout the country , there was also much fund-raising and knitting for the armed services .
5 He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that .
6 But erm , if so , please get in touch before Wednesday as they 've , he rang me up last night and asked for a final figure from us which he must
7 The Assistant Chief Constable had mentally spoken a prayer for self-control and asked for a brief statement .
8 I contacted the North Devon District Health Authority and asked for an extra-contractual referral to be made for this operation .
9 I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager .
10 This spelt out in more detail what 5 Corps had learned from Maj-Gen Schmidt-Richberg about the approach of the Army Group E forces from the south , and asked for the specific authorization 5 Corps required to accept the surrender of these enormous numbers of fugitives as " formed bodies " .
11 The problem is no less with open-ended exercises and unstructured enquiry projects in humanities work , where the teachers need to anticipate and prepare for a wide variety of student response and reaction .
12 The Prague meeting was preceded by sharp disagreements between the Soviet Union and some member states , notably Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , whose representatives spoke openly about the dissolution of COMECON and pressed for a speedier implementation of currency convertibility and the right to trade individually with organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) .
13 Yachts have been fined for neglecting to fly one in Turkey , and reprimanded for a torn one in Greece .
14 In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community .
15 With its occupants pushed firmly back into their seats , the Turbo R thumped a hole in the air and lunged for the far horizon , covering the quarter-mile in a staggering 14.8secs on the way .
16 But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say .
17 Optimistic views , not shared by Freud , that liberation from sexual prohibitions would eliminate neurosis and make for a healthier society have proved to be wrong .
18 Whatever the colour scheme , whatever the style , these pretty white duvet covers and pillowcases from Lace Lady will fit in like a dream — and make for a good night 's sleep .
19 But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ?
20 Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period .
21 The first is that with another ten years of John Paul 's rule , the silencing of awkward bishops and theologians , the appointment to the episcopate of a most carefully selected team of neo-conservatives , a rather traditionalist form of Catholicism will , in fact , harden and remain for a long time effectively unchangeable .
22 Terrorism and the Liberal State was published in 1977 , and revised for a second edition in 1986 .
23 Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game .
24 He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped .
25 He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair .
26 There 's enough food and to spare for the coming year .
27 Leaflets were distributed throughout Kuwait City attacking the government 's failure to organize food supplies and to plan for a swift restoration of water and electricity supplies .
28 First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her .
29 Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world .
30 She 's had a hectic Christmas — one long round of shopping , cleaning and cooking for the entire family , including Malc 's brother and his wife and his mother , who has become confused and forgetful since Dad 's death and Lynda has taken care of her with selfless dedication .
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