Example sentences of "and [pron] [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |
| 2 | ‘ Tomorrow morning , ’ he said , ‘ I have to make my closing speech in defence of a man who is on a murder charge , and whom I know for certain to be innocent . |
| 3 | you believe that I 'm wearing a hairpiece so you do n't know and I I speak for most |
| 4 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
| 5 | The view that has found favour amongst those involved with Earth Mysteries , and one which seems to spring out of the page when these legends are brought together , is that most folklore associated with ancient sites can best be interpreted in terms of the survival of the old pagan religion and , one of its wellsprings , the existence of some form of energy which the ancient people were sensitive to and which they used for healing and in their rituals . |
| 6 | Indeed , the carbon-based molecules of which living things are constructed , and which they employ for life 's purposes , are so various and can be so complex that the study of biochemistry might at first sight seem quite impossible . |
| 7 | working on tasks which they have chosen and which they direct for themselves ; |
| 8 | Bruce had a simple pendulum of the kind people employ to locate water , and which he used for diagnosis . |
| 9 | She knew exactly what we did and who we worked for . |
| 10 | All I knew was that my life was intolerable and that the only way not to be destroyed by it , or by ‘ them ’ as I called the adult , authoritative world , was to reject them and everything they stood for . |
| 11 | You see , Harry , Rex adored the Tyrrell Society and everything it stood for . |
| 12 | The Government 's repugnance for that organisation and everything it stands for has been made absolutely clear on repeated occasions . |
| 13 | Randy loved himself and everything he stood for . |
| 14 | There is a relaxed atmosphere and everything you need for a great holiday is here . |
| 15 | In between , we say , we ‘ play it by ear ’ and what we listen for is the child 's own claim to have its decisions treated as authoritative and to be ready to bear the responsibility . |
| 16 | On occasion , the Minister has criticised the lack of detail in our overall defence expenditure proposals and what we propose for the Territorial Army and the reserve forces . |
| 17 | And what we having for lunch ? |
| 18 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 19 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 20 | A journalist friend of mine is doing an in-depth piece for one of the Sundays on big agents in sport and what they do for their clients . |
| 21 | If so , a conflict may well arise between the work of the consultants in their capacity as testers of design for the private operators and what they do for the HSE to determine whether the safety case is well established . |
| 22 | Jacobite sentiment had become more widespread by the end of Anne 's reign , and also more distinctively Tory in nature , but it was an attachment to Country ideology , and a deep hostility to the Whigs and Dissenters ( and what they stood for ) , which was its main defining characteristic . |
| 23 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 24 | So I put Lianne 's name down and what she used for her age . |
| 25 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 26 | Yet , without doubt , they would have been horrified by Morris Zapp and what he stood for . |
| 27 | He knew who he was and what he stood for , and he was not ashamed of it . |
| 28 | Because the father is the model for the superego and the actual embodiment of authority and the demands of the cultural prohibitions against incest and parricide within the individual 's own family , it is perhaps not surprising that the antagonism towards him and what he stands for need not be limited to such self-evidently anti-social and aggressive tendencies as those revealed in the statistics of crime and violence . |
| 29 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 30 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |