Example sentences of "and [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 2 | Cells ( 50000 ) in serum free medium were added to each coated well and incubated for various times at 36°C . |
| 3 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 4 | A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees surveyed chaotic scenes at an emergency processing centre in a sports hall in the northern town of Tuzla , where about 2,000 people are sleeping on blankets on the floor , and appealed for immediate international help . |
| 5 | On Feb. 26 in Zambia President Frederick Chiluba declared the country to be disaster-affected , and appealed for international assistance as three-quarters of the maize harvest had been lost . |
| 6 | Today , the rose , especially the H.T. and its offspring , the Floribunda , is very big business indeed , and played for huge winnings , with large multi-national companies paying fortunes to have a new rose variety given the company name . |
| 7 | She represented Midlands Schools around 20 times and played for Scottish Schools Under-16s in a European tournament at Largs in the 1986-87 season . |
| 8 | Largely at Mr Shillington 's expense , the unfinished church was completed and opened for public worship in 1802 . |
| 9 | Anne stopped listening while they were comparing their masturbatory records , and watched for new arrivals . |
| 10 | But it can make its presence felt , at least to those with imaginations to see : first admired , then feared , and finally mocked and looted for fragmentary hints and occasional ideas . |
| 11 | Children employed by such as William Douglas at his cotton mill in Salford were often taken from the workhouse at six or seven years old and worked for long hours , and were sometimes so ill-treated that they committed suicide . |
| 12 | ‘ We did surprisingly well in rucks and mauls and , as expected in New Zealand , most players went to ground and looked for rucked ball . |
| 13 | Frau Nordern snapped a good-night back and stormed out of the Station , and such was the mood showing on her face there on the S-Bahn a railway policeman checking tickets did not ask for hers but wisely changed carriages at Lichtenberg station and looked for other prey . |
| 14 | Many of their contemporaries , however , thought so much noise must betoken some serious intent ; later , others dismissed the noise as meaningless , and looked for different motives . |
| 15 | At the same time , researchers who were unaware of the results of the lead tests interviewed the mothers , gave them intelligence tests and looked for social factors that might be affecting their children . |
| 16 | In this most strange place and in this short moment Nicholas lost his heart and knew for certain that at last , at very last , without doubt or question , he had fallen in love . |
| 17 | The crucial step began with a determination to rise and pray in the middle of the night ; he continued in prayer the following morning , and took for spiritual nutriment the Bible and the Wesleyan hymn-book . |
| 18 | One night all these goods were secretly taken away and disappeared for good . |
| 19 | Usually the proposed adjustments are checked outside the meeting by the central team and recirculated for quick comment before publication in a final form in which they can be used both by the Modular Admissions Committee ( MAC ) to control enrolment and by faculties and departments as the base for resource management . |
| 20 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 21 | said I 've no qualms about 'em , and yet he 's , somebody that votes for bloody Green Party , eh , he 's just been up and voted for Green Party , I said I 'd of stopped at home if I was you |
| 22 | The binding proteins were eluted as indicated with 100mM(wash) , 250mM , 500mM and 1M NaCl and assayed for binding activity to the SSB oligonucleotide . |
| 23 | Morice always worked and spoke for individual liberty and the rule of common law : ‘ I will not be ashamed in good and lawful sort to strive for freedom of conscience , public justice , and the liberties of my country . ’ |
| 24 | Cunningham drew on his cigar and paused for eye-twinkling effect , but already Harry had foreseen what he would say next . |
| 25 | Even a Marxist like Gramsci , who spoke of the ‘ consent ’ of the subordinate classes , saw consensus as false consciousness and hoped for revolutionary change . |
| 26 | Granting a monopoly was the easiest way for the monarch to encourage a trade or an industry , and was also a way to reward courtiers , who did not get salaries and hoped for substantial favours of just this sort . |
| 27 | The family continued to play a significant part in Anglo-French affairs : in January 1317 , Jean , sire de Fiennes , wrote to Edward II as his loyal vassal in Ponthieu , informing him of a rumoured scheme for the partition of the kingdom of France on the death of Louis X. His motive was not entirely altruistic , for Fiennes was a chief ally and supporter of the rebellious Robert of Artois , and hoped for English aid in the form of ships with which to enter Calais and St Omer . |
| 28 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 29 | They just took off and left for good . |
| 30 | Plummer swallowed hard and froze for long seconds . |