Example sentences of "and [verb] for [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He therefore gave authority to one Edward Sawyer to make inquiries , and to search for evidence in all houses and places in Kettering and five miles around . |
| 2 | The Errol Flynn looks crumbled with age , and the man whose strike rate in first-class cricket was better than O'Reilly 's , Mailey 's or Grimmett 's entered the twilight world of trampdom under the bridges of the Yarra , drinking meths and fossicking for food in garbage-bins . |
| 3 | Some time after this Mrs Meehan wrote to me that her husband was innocent , and asked for assistance in having his case reviewed . |
| 4 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 5 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 6 | The appellant firm provided tax consultancy and accounting services and registered for VAT in October 1986 . |
| 7 | A vital ingredient on any trip to the sub-continent is morale — coping with Delhi belly , waiting for room service that never arrives and queueing for hours in chaotic airport terminals . |
| 8 | For example , a quite recent book of advanced readings , entitled The Nature of Creativity , edited by a very prominent cognitive psychologist , and intended for researchers in the area , makes absolutely no reference to the topic ! |
| 9 | For this purpose a ‘ ship ’ is defined as ‘ Any structure , whether completed or in the course of completion , launched and intended for use in navigation as a ship or a part of a ship ’ — Section 12 Merchant Shipping Act 1979 . |
| 10 | As British economists know only too well , it is easy to turn a blind eye to unwelcome truths of this kind and to indulge for decades in a form of national self-delusion . |
| 11 | The result is that ‘ international judicial assistance ’ now comprises well-established techniques and procedures for co-operation in civil and commercial proceedings , together with a very much more recent growth of international agreements , bilateral regional and multilateral , in which those techniques and procedures are extended and developed for use in the field of criminal investigations , prosecutions , and to trace and seize the proceeds of crimes . |
| 12 | This characteristic is quite general and holds for geodesics in spaces that are less symmetric than that of a sphere , and in spaces of hi–her dimension . |
| 13 | If Ogarkov 's demotion in September 1984 revealed anything beyond a straight-forward preference to utilise his skills more effectively , then punishment came not for losing an argument , but for breaking the rules — for carrying on arguments after being overruled and pressing for prerogatives in the military-technical and military-political areas which were not rightfully his . |
| 14 | Grammar is a series of four illustrated exercise books written for young learners and designed for use in the classroom and for homework . |
| 15 | Evans was found guilty and hanged for murder in July 1949 , protesting his innocence to the last . |
| 16 | Evans was wrongly accused and hanged for murder in the famous Christie case . |
| 17 | Goods are traded and swopped for items in demand or for services . |
| 18 | He was shot in the thigh while trying to avoid arrest at the Danish frontier in May 1945 , and tried for treason in London in September . |
| 19 | Saltburn is getting a spring clean this weekend to be spic and span for Northumbria in Bloom judging on Monday . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is through data collection and searching for patterns in those data that theory is elaborated . |
| 21 | On the first day of a two-day visit to the United Kingdom , de Klerk saw the UK Prime Minster , John Major , on April 22 and appealed for help in winning investment . |
| 22 | Also , sets were organised and much of the set decoration such as trucks , cars , and period pieces were stored and prepared for use in the film . |
| 23 | Anyway , she had thrust into his hands a copy of Palgrave 's Golden Treasury , in its revised and enlarged 1911 edition , prepared and annotated for use in the Public Schools , and he did n't argue . |
| 24 | Henry , who spent 10 years as a professional in Scottish league cricket and played for Scotland in the Benson and Hedges Cup , turned his back on other coloured South African cricketers in 1976 . |
| 25 | " Some of the groups " , the White Paper said , " found themselves attempting to reconcile a wish for strict emissions targets , and hence a wish to phase out all fossil fuel burning , with a dislike for the nuclear option and support for coal in the short term . |
| 26 | Secondary objectives of the project are to develop an appropriate framework within the linkages between financial markets and dynamic efficiency gains can properly be understood ; to assess empirically the role and effectiveness of the market for corporate control in promoting dynamic efficiency gains ; and to provide a stronger basis for policy in the areas of stock market regulation , competition policy , and support for innovation in relation to these long term efficiency considerations . |
| 27 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 28 | The general rules on Hering 's law of cure and looking for improvement in well-being still applies but it is necessary to take into account pathological tissues change . |
| 29 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |
| 30 | a collection of tags specifying page layout styles , paragraph settings and type specifications which can be set up by the user and saved for use in other documents . |