Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 2 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 3 | No , I 'll I 'll I 'll ring them up and book it for eight . |
| 4 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 5 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 6 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 7 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 8 | He conquered him so completely that the man now housed him , clothed , fed and supported him and used every spare minute to coach and prepare him for some as yet unrevealed greatness . |
| 9 | He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet . |
| 10 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 11 | Guy Hunt , the Governor of Alabama , was indicted on Dec. 28 by a grand jury in Montgomery on charges of appropriating US$200,000 from his inaugural fund and using it for personal purposes . |
| 12 | You have been surrounded by speech and using it for most of your life . |
| 13 | ‘ I came to say goodbye and to thank you for all you 've done . ’ |
| 14 | There was also alarm about the practice of " occasional conformity " ( whereby Nonconformists were able to evade the provisions of the Test and Corporation Acts and qualify themselves for civil office through the occasional attendance at Anglican communion ) and the growth of Dissenting academies ( which trained future generations of Nonconformist ministers and thus helped to perpetuate the religious schism ) . |
| 15 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 16 | It achieved temperatures over a million degrees and sustained them for several milliseconds . |
| 17 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 18 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 19 | and swap it for that ? |
| 20 | ‘ Not even a bona fide payment in thanks for your co-operation and to compensate you for any upheaval ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 22 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 23 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 24 | I signed obediently , asking their names and writing one for each . |
| 25 | The Duc d'Orléans refused Stair 's demand to hand over the ships and their contents to Byng but did agree to unload the weapons and remove them for safe keeping to a French arsenal , a notable diplomatic triumph . |
| 26 | If you have a car crash , then yes , you did create or allow it , but do n't blame and harass yourself for that . |
| 27 | Put me in the oven and bake me for forty minutes . |
| 28 | " I 've been meaning to pop in and see you for some time , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |
| 29 | So we had to go back and swap it for seven to eight |
| 30 | Section 143 requires local authorities to compile registers of land that might be contaminated and open them for public inspection . |