Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have less opportunity to make new friendships and tend to depend for companionship on the continuity of longstanding relationships . |
| 2 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 3 | Iris , the messenger goddess , is sent by the muses to find a new poet ; she discovers Mira 's ‘ crippled Infants ’ and agrees to care for them : |
| 4 | This followed a complaint alleging that he had issued a buffet receipt to two young passengers in lieu of a travel ticket and failed to account for the £5 received . |
| 5 | Our leaders lost much support because they rejected the peace dividend policy of the delegate conference year after year and failed to campaign for it for years before 9 April , 1992 . |
| 6 | Positive Answers emphasises the need for the residential sector to highlight good practice and to continue to push for change and improvements . |
| 7 | Provide help for families to stay together and to continue to care for their children at home . |
| 8 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 9 | Malcolm was pissed and agreed to pay for everyone 's meal . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , the client selected from the artist 's studio a finished painting and agreed to pay for it , that agreement would be a contract of sale of goods . |
| 11 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 12 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 13 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 14 | agrees to co-operate with , and at 's expense to execute any documents and do such things as may be necessary in the opinion of 's counsel , to safeguard the Trademarks ( including proof of use and application for recording as a registered user of any or all of the Trademarks or the Trademarks Registers maintained by the relevant Trademarks offices in the Territory and to enable to apply for and/or secure proper registration of the Trade Marks in the Territory . |
| 15 | These images also interact with other texts , particularly newspaper accounts of similar conditions , and combine to confirm for many White spectators that the truth is that housing and employment problems and so on will not go away unless Blacks are sent away or at least have their entry to Britain severely restricted . |
| 16 | As a result seventeen players were suspended for six months , fined a total of £900 , and forbidden to play for the club again . |
| 17 | Homoeopathy has therefore become a postgraduate study and has to rely for the recruitment of its practitioners on those members of the medical , dental , veterinary and pharmaceutical professions who are open-minded enough to try new approaches . |
| 18 | Bob is advising Clinton how to cope when he leaves Stoke Mandeville in a couple of months time and has to fend for himself in his own home : |
| 19 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 20 | Pair or group tasks will not stimulate worthwhile collaboration unless they engage children 's interest and involvement , and are sufficiently flexible and challenging to allow for a range of responses . |
| 21 | She closed her eyes and tried to pray for Maggie , but did n't know where to start . |
| 22 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 23 | A plump woman in a white wool suit and dark glasses bought it and tried to pay for it by cheque . |
| 24 | Malvern had Streather and Blanchet to thank for their decisive third point in the semi-final against Harrow and a win on the 19th . |
| 25 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 26 | May I draw to the attention of the Secretary of State the case of a Wakefield man who was refused expensive injections for infertility by a fund-holding GP and told to apply for that treatment to a non fund-holding practice in Wakefield ? |
| 27 | Then he frowned and seemed to consider for a moment . |
| 28 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 29 | Tennant , a former Scottish international , created a stir four years ago when she switched allegiance and opted to play for England in international competition . |
| 30 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |