Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had spent the day nonstop before and after work preparing for the weekend . |
| 2 | Do you remember looking over the ship 's side at the flying fish , and the phosphorus gleaming along the side of the ship at night — and of course looking for the Southern Cross in the stars at night ? |
| 3 | Bristol , linked via the Severn valley to an exceptionally productive hinterland , was second in 1700 , but with an inconvenient 7-mile approach up the Avon and with congestion making for a slow turnaround , limits to its expansion were already becoming visible . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Auditor General should conduct a thorough study of the potential costs and benefits of carrying through such reforms in this country , up to and including accrual accounts for UK Inc . |
| 5 | Fixed-term contracts may make provision for employees on leave to have their passage(s) to and from home paid for by the employer . |
| 6 | Further options are planned in Renaissance Culture and in Travel Writing for Homer to Chatwin . |
| 7 | After all , people have contributed to these pensions during their working lives and in order to qualify for a full pension , you need to have paid into it for over forty years . |
| 8 | This requirement has now been dispensed with and in order to qualify for the discount the alarm must be in accordance with the IS199 specification only . |
| 9 | Death during transport and in quarantine account for a further 20 per cent of each batch . |
| 10 | Please report to this office at 9.00 am on that day and on arrival ask for Laura Inglis . |
| 11 | Of her early upbringing in Beirut , the text notes : ‘ Leslie Hakim-Dowek 's work is about loss , loss of life and liberty in the Lebanon , that sad , strife-torn country in which she was born , and by extension mourning for the loss of natural life on this planet caused by the malice or ignorance of man . ’ |