Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sunday , then , ’ she said , and damned herself for the note of desperation in her voice . |
| 2 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 3 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 4 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 5 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 6 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 7 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 8 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 9 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 10 | He had practiced putting on his kitchen floor at home during the winter to try and prepare himself for the greens . |
| 11 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 12 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 13 | They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night , before settling down to cook . |
| 14 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 15 | He came back and hugged her for a while . |
| 16 | ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son . |
| 17 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 18 | I stole the candle from its socket and sold it for a crust of bread and a stoup of water from an ale wife . |
| 19 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 20 | When the mobs rush forward in the Mall they are taking part in the last circus of a civilization that has lost faith in itself , and sold itself for a splendid triviality . |
| 21 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
| 22 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 23 | ‘ I came to apologise for hitting you , ’ she began determinedly , ‘ and to thank you for the cheque . ’ |
| 24 | Regina Royal Ginseng and Regina Evening Primrose Oil take those two remarkable natural substances and combine them for the first time with Regina 's fresh Royal Jelly . |
| 25 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 26 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 27 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 29 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 30 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |