Example sentences of "and [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let this woman divorce and disappear for good . |
| 2 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 3 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 4 | Did you try and compensate for that by the way you set up your Cabinet-committee structure ? |
| 5 | They start behind men in certain ways because of the sort of training they are getting in school , in the home I mean , and in so many respects I think schools have to try and compensate for that . |
| 6 | one of these was the compensation pendulum , in which brass and steel are used to move freely and compensate for different co-efficients of expansion . |
| 7 | It should be possible to detect and compensate for this using ‘ intelligent ’ software routines , but this would seriously complicate the software . |
| 8 | I 'll just think of myself and humanity can go and stew for all I care . |
| 9 | They much appreciate the work being done by Mrs Doyle , but they are not in a walk of life where they can sit back and wait for better times . |
| 10 | Let's go back and wait for better weather . ’ |
| 11 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 12 | Our Dawn told me he 's had to go and wait for that bloody pregnancy scan . |
| 13 | Every division of the army had a prearranged town or village where it would gather and wait for further orders . |
| 14 | An official I spoke to said there were no staff to take the train on and we had to leave and wait for another to come along . ’ |
| 15 | Because he felt so relaxed , he was able to smile and wait for another bar or two before letting the music dictate an answer . |
| 16 | When melted stir in the crumbs and leave to soften and swell for 10 min . |
| 17 | They can fetch and carry for other Goblin or Orc races , and do other rather limited tasks , but they are little use for any real work . |
| 18 | to try and finish for half past twelve if we can . |
| 19 | King : Sweet Emma , you remember far too well The jeers and cat-calls mingled with the praise When you did sing and dance for half an hour In your own TV show . |
| 20 | On the other hand anthropological topics , which have always had a major place in Marxism , are often just as difficult as Marxist writings to understand and evaluate for those with a more general interest . |
| 21 | You should wait and look for other improvements to follow . |
| 22 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 23 | I do n't know where else you can go and look for nice fresh fruit . |
| 24 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer-Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them , you know . |
| 25 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them . |
| 26 | Then I thought I might as well go and look for Sabine . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 28 | I 'll go and look for some wallpaper . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 30 | Well if that 's case she can go and work for one of the taxi companies and sit in their office and ans |