Example sentences of "and [verb] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
2 | Marjorie left Lizzie 's body at the vet 's and arranged for her to be cremated . |
3 | According to legend , Dame Janet decided that these ducks would be much happier in St James 's Park and arranged for them to be escorted thence . |
4 | Three years later , he emigrated with his parents to Israel , yet became a frequent commuter to the major musical centres of Europe , where he caught the eye of such musical heavyweights as Edwin Fischer , Wilhelm Furtwangler and ( most especially ) Arthur Rubinstein , who took an immense interest in the young pianist and arranged for him to be represented by his agent , the legendary Sol Hurok . |
5 | He telephoned the Forensic Science Laboratory and arranged for someone to be sent down . |
6 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
7 | She seemed uncertain of her English , and asked for everything to be repeated . |
8 | His mother , unable to find the strength to battle against him , wrote to the school and asked for him to be excused . |
9 | I had a fair idea as to who had done it , and I passed on my suspicions about so-and-so and so-and-so , and asked for something to be done about it . |
10 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |
11 | On 11 July Cross had taken a sample of his own tapwater into the local North Cornwall District Council offices and asked for it to be analysed , but the Council refused . |
12 | The letter did not say that they would continue to be charged for the service , unless they wrote and asked for it to be stopped . |
13 | On 28 August 1651 , while Alured was evidently on his deathbed , James Chaloner [ q.v. ] , the Yorkshire MP , reported to the House that Alured was owed £8,769 and asked for it to be paid . |
14 | He said : ‘ I took it in yesterday and asked for it to be repaired as soon as possible . |
15 | Each writer is introduced by Ms Washington and placed for us against her proper contemporary backdrop , so that we can see and understand some of the pressures and concerns that shaped her writing , her style and her narrative voice . |
16 | The CFD , however , declared that early elections would inevitably be rigged , and pressed for them to be held in April 1993 . |
17 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
18 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
19 | If you are a supplier of goods or services where turnover exceeds the current registration threshold you have to charge VAT and account for it to Customs and Excise . |
20 | And catering for everything from carrot juice to champagne , open sandwiches to a 5 course meal . |
21 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
22 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
23 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
24 | The 1910 dispute , which is particularly well documented in the press as well as in manuscript sources , enables us to see that on this occasion at least , the women did not stand by and wait for it to be resolved over their heads . |
25 | Since Alford was described on the ballot paper merely as ‘ The Labour Candidate ’ , it would not be surprising if quite a few voters were confused , and voted for him by mistake . |
26 | You go up round then you come down yes you can through but people queue and wait for one on the top . |
27 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
28 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
29 | If I make a black man sweep up my trash , empty my dustbins , wash the vomit from my floor and kill for me in my imperialist wars … well , what do you think ? |
30 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |