Example sentences of "and [verb] for [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physicians for Human Rights , based in Boston , and the New York group Human Rights Watch brought the samples back last summer and arranged for their analysis at the British chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down , Wiltshire . |
| 2 | When his brother retired from business , the husband took over the company , changed its name to Eratex Ltd. and arranged for his wife to become secretary and co-director of the company . |
| 3 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 4 | Helen let out a wail and plunged for her doll . |
| 5 | Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night . |
| 6 | Arran convened his kin and friends , and all the other nobles who would support him , and asked for their backing against the cardinal . |
| 7 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 8 | ‘ I was desperate when I rang Anne and asked for her help . |
| 9 | Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband . |
| 10 | The drug cartels , in a letter to congressional president Luis Guillermo Giraldo Hurtado on Oct. 23 , 1989 , under their pseudonym the " Extraditables " , displayed previous knowledge of the Supreme Court 's ruling and asked for its recognition as part of a peace plan rejected by the government who reaffirmed that emergency extraditions would continue . |
| 11 | The driver grabbed me by the shoulder and asked for my fare . |
| 12 | I pretended to be another friend , and asked for your phone number . " |
| 13 | Mr Endara was told of the planned attack , and asked for his support , which he apparently granted , saying that he was ready to become the new leader if the US could topple the Noriega regime . |
| 14 | As none of the guests spoke Spanish ‘ I rang up the British Consul and asked for his help and he provided it . |
| 15 | ( Do you know , I was in the council chamber with Thomas Cromwell when , years later , the northern rebels sent their demands and asked for his removal . |
| 16 | So much so that one day at Cockerton School , Darlington , Philip fell over and hurt himself and asked for his sister . |
| 17 | Nigel gave up all belief in things occult after that and asked for his money back . |
| 18 | Five years later , the plaintiff , having been informed that the painting was not a Constable , returned it to the defendants and asked for his money back . |
| 19 | As Hugh Paddick remembers : ‘ People then came up to him and asked for his autograph . |
| 20 | Pat was with him the day a young woman approached him exceedingly politely while he was enjoying his veal — in one of his favourite Italian restaurants , Biagis , he would go for a filleted sole — and asked for his autograph . |
| 21 | They came to the County Council and asked for our permission , to record a number of meetings in order to get a variety of settings and words , different words they used . |
| 22 | one quarter of wheat for every virgate of land , in return for their having housebote and paling for their corn , and for collecting dead wood for their fuel in the King 's demesne wood … and from every house a goose and a hen every year . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , being a sergeant in the Army , for a start , ’ said Dolly , ‘ and fightin' for your king and country . |
| 24 | Penry looked as though he was about to burst into speech for a moment , then his face set in the familiar harsh lines , and without another word he turned on his heel and made for his sanctum , slamming the door behind him . |
| 25 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 26 | The boys ' behaviour is their way of protesting at these changes and competing for your affection and attention . |
| 27 | ‘ He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence , ’ said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs , visiting Serbian bishops and television crews . |
| 28 | She felt sure that one of those burning houses was her own and fear for her mother drove her on . |
| 29 | I watch chalky earth plains give way to natural forest and fear for their future . |
| 30 | Taking fish the size of Neon Tetras as a benchmark , and allowing for their growth : |