Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 2 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 3 | This followed a complaint alleging that he had issued a buffet receipt to two young passengers in lieu of a travel ticket and failed to account for the £5 received . |
| 4 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 5 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 6 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 7 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 8 | The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party denounced the name change and vowed to fight for the right to continue to use its name . |
| 9 | Antony grinned in resignation at Connon and began searching for the tablecloth . |
| 10 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 11 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 12 | Both cold and hyaluronidase treatment can activate unfertilized eggs so eggs must be kept warm and exposed to hyaluronidase for the minimum length of time . |
| 13 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 14 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |
| 15 | I turned and started to head for the dunes at a slow run . |
| 16 | At about 10,000ft ( 3300m ) we broke out of the trees into an area of grassland that looked vaguely like a Scottish moor and decided to camp for the night . |
| 17 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 18 | Preston drained his glass and decided to go for the bottle in the next interlude . |
| 19 | They left the hospital and went to wait for the bus . |
| 20 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 21 | He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon . |
| 22 | But each could and did act for the other when necessary ; and English diplomats abroad frequently corresponded with both . |
| 23 | ‘ I voted for Al Gore for Vice President and had to vote for the other fellow to get his ( Gore 's ) name , ’ Mr Clinton told a neighbour as reporters listened in . |
| 24 | Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 25 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 26 | Realising that the take-off would involve an element of risk , the Nimbus pilot had , in fact , refused to go at first , and had asked for the K8 to be moved . |
| 27 | Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus . |
| 28 | Jordan later discovered that two of his party had managed to get away and had made for the rendezvous point which the group aiming for Martuba was to use . |
| 29 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 30 | Stalin , the architect of the revolutionary Soviet state , the instigator of unprecedented social reforms and freedoms , the defender of international peace and security , the supporter of Republican Spain , had struck a cynical deal with Hitler , had in one stroke abandoned the principles of collective security and defence of nation states , and had opted for the fascist diplomacy of " bilateral agreements between gang leaders " . |