Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 2 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 3 | 39 schools in Wales and England matched for size and catchment profile . |
| 4 | Me an , Me and Gemma and Jane went for walk yesterday some people we met along the road I di I did it all and erm |
| 5 | Those last high-spirited weeks at Alfoxden and Stowey were almost at an end by the time Cottle and Hazlitt left for home . |
| 6 | After the breakup the parents were awarded joint custody and Tom resided for part of the week with each . |
| 7 | MCI Communications Corp signed a multi-year agreement to use Corning Inc 's dispersion-shifted optical fibre it its US-wide long distance network : it says it has already installed dispersion-shifted fibre in routes from Sacramento to Seattle and San Antonio to Austin and will be laying the fibre in a new route between Salt Lake City and Chicago scheduled for completion by year-end ; the new cable requires fewer signal boosters , cutting equipment requirements and system costs while raising reliability of the network . |
| 8 | That seemed to sum it up , and Lydia left for home , driving slowly because of the sheep , the young pheasants , the occasional rabbit and the small groups of tourists on their way to view some antiquity or item of rustic charm who variously loped , flapped , skittered and scuttled before her . |
| 9 | As the Turbo headed for Marylebone 5 minutes early , Isaac and Austin prayed for consistency . |
| 10 | US and Europe set for trade war |
| 11 | It was then that first contact was made with the egregious Hesketh , who provided an F3 car , a Dastle , in which ‘ Bubbles ’ Horsley and Hunt raced for part of the 1972 season . |
| 12 | She was soundly defeated in her war against Turkey when Britain and France intervened for fear that Russia would establish her sway over Constantinople . |
| 13 | William Harrison ( John Harrison 's son ) and the timekeeper arrived on 13 May 1764 , the necessary observations were made , and Green sailed for home on 4 June , reaching Greenwich in July . |
| 14 | Mark Richards won the heat , with Ho and Potter tied for second . |
| 15 | In 1908 , the men met in Ayr and Kilpatrick asked for settlement of his share of the Baron 's earnings . |
| 16 | After their swim , Nathan and Yvonne stopped for coffee and doughnuts in a diner on the highway . |
| 17 | Tom Jones and Duff argued for resignation , and Lady Astor helped to sway Dawson to the same line , which was duly reflected in The Times leader of Monday morning . |