Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten days later Ricky and Perdita left for Argentina . |
| 2 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when Bristol equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 3 | Bristol piled on fierce pressure and Middlesbrough paid for their lack of enterprise when City equalised after 67 minutes . |
| 4 | Wilkes and Cobbett wrote for a society which still shuddered at the memory of the puritans and their censors , the good people appointed by Cromwell to license and to regulate the press . |
| 5 | The business seemed to be doing well and all day vans called for items which Joe had listed and William prepared for despatch . |
| 6 | She looked away and Trent thought for a moment that she would leave it alone , but then she looked back and asked quickly , to get it out , ‘ Did your mother leave him for your father ? ’ |
| 7 | Malaysia , Thailand , Indonesia and Bolivia account for 70 per cent of world output . |
| 8 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize converted for the Intel 80486 under Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz Unix : compilers have already been implemented for the IBM Corp Rios chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 9 | The recent appearance of low-price Rickenbacker copies from Encore and Tanglewood calls for a bit of discussion on the replica guitar business in general . |
| 10 | She and PAMELA prepare for bed . ] |
| 11 | Julio Salinas and Michel scored for the Spaniards , while both Hungary 's goals came from Pinter . |
| 12 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 13 | Their complaint has been that , so far at least , the market mechanism has not proved effective for such large volumes — British Steel , for example , spends £100 million annually on electricity , and ICI accounts for 2%-3% of all consumption in the UK . |
| 14 | The Government had failed to agree on a programme : Baldwin was for protection ; Samuel was against it ; and MacDonald asked for ‘ a doctors mandate ’ . |
| 15 | The cover picture of a paperback edition of She and Allan published for popular consumption in 1960 implied that this was a ‘ romantic ’ novel , but the orthodox young , handsome ‘ hero ’ depicted there bears little relation to the ‘ insignificant and withered hunter ’ whose presence , helped by that of the warrior Umslopagaas , coolly acceptant of mystery , pulls this tale of Ayesha round into the robust atmosphere of Rider Haggard 's most typical African adventures . |
| 16 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 17 | The company is currently looking for independent software vendors to develop add-on SQL applications , report writers , file editors and CASE toolkits for DataGate . |
| 18 | Disenchantment with exchange rate flexibility and the recognition that inflation can not be controlled through uncoordinated monetary policies generated the political will in France and Germany to press for the formation of a regional monetary system . |
| 19 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This caused an angry confrontation and Minton apologised for his deceit . |
| 22 | While Laura unpacked the picnic , before joining Emma and Sophie to search for shells along the shore , Ross managed to find enough driftwood to build a small fire . |
| 23 | Hobbs , Hutchings , Hardstaff and Humphries played together for England in 1908 , for example , and Hassett , Hole , Harvey and Hill played for Australia in two matches of the Coronation series , Hunte , Holford , Hendriks and Hall were all picked for West Indies in 1966 , and Hedley Howarth , two Hadlees and Hastings played for New Zealand in 1974 . |
| 24 | The show was The Henderson Kids and Kylie auditioned for the part of Charlotte Kernow — known as Char — in a tomboy role that was to prove remarkably similar to the character that would one day transform her into a superstar . |
| 25 | The Lady 's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry was to be directed by John Gielgud at the Globe in May 1949 and Richard auditioned for the ‘ orphaned clerk ’ . |
| 26 | The wars with republican France and Napoleon lasted for nearly twenty years and although erm er temporary truces and peaces were negotiated , the struggle continued until the overthrow of Napoleon and that was , although it was a , a largely European war , it did have ramifications , it brought Britain , for example , into war with the United States in nin in eighteen twelve . |
| 27 | George and Marie calls for concepts and techniques from an even greater range of disciplines , especially management . |
| 28 | The rest of the sale items were a mixture of paintings , clothing , models and medals reflected the state of the market at the moment with a pair each of metal desk-top models of Mosquito and Hampden going for £130 and £70 respectively . |
| 29 | Men like Jeremiah and Ezekiel looked for the day when God would forge a new covenant , or agreement , with men . |
| 30 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |