Example sentences of "and [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 2 | By following the ‘ golden rule ’ of black and white photography — to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights — negative contrast can be lowered or raised according to the subject 's original tonal contrast . |
| 3 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 4 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 5 | He called the RAC once more and arranged for the car to be taken to the edge of Brighton . |
| 6 | Breathing a sigh of relief , I drove over to the local airfield and arranged for the flight to take place a week earlier , just in case . |
| 7 | Since any further delay would limit the use of this space for this season the chairman went ahead and arranged for the work to be carried out . |
| 8 | Since any further delay would limit the use of this space for this season the chairman went ahead and arranged for the work to be carried out . |
| 9 | Greenwich Mean Time , Jonas Savimbi , the UNITA leader , telephoned his organization 's radio station , known as " Voice of the Resistance of the Black Cockerel " , and arranged for the ceasefire order to be broadcast . |
| 10 | Dr Manfred Thaller , President of the International Association for History and Computing backed the seminar and arranged for the publication of its proceedings . |
| 11 | 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation … |
| 12 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 13 | In deaf clubs and institutes throughout the country , there was also much fund-raising and knitting for the armed services . |
| 14 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 15 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 16 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 17 | They marched into the shop and asked for the manager . |
| 18 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 19 | As she spoke , Jack moved his hand gently on to hers and asked for the salt . |
| 20 | He then knelt and confessed his sin to God and asked for the forgiveness that is in Christ to be his . |
| 21 | Joseph of Arimathaea , a member of the Sanhedrin who was obviously sympathetic to Jesus ( Matthew claims he had become a secret disciple ) , went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus . |
| 22 | Next I had yet another idea , I wrote to the American Women 's Club of Thailand and asked for the donation of a video player . |
| 23 | He replied that there was no substance in the allegation of French unpreparedness in the Verdun sector and asked for the names of those who had given Galliéni the information so that they might be admonished . |
| 24 | There also sometimes seems to be a feeling that the media could have got themselves better organised and asked for the material earlier . |
| 25 | Bishop Stratford , preaching on the text ‘ My head is sick ’ , announced the decision to depose the king nevertheless and asked for the assent of the commons . |
| 26 | This spelt out in more detail what 5 Corps had learned from Maj-Gen Schmidt-Richberg about the approach of the Army Group E forces from the south , and asked for the specific authorization 5 Corps required to accept the surrender of these enormous numbers of fugitives as " formed bodies " . |
| 27 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 28 | Blanche turned her biro slowly round in her fingers , meditating on the patterns created by the octagonal tube of plastic , and asked for the name of the dry cleaner 's . |
| 29 | From a cafe " behind the Nile , Frenchman called the Oberoi and asked for the Queen . |
| 30 | Helen to be contacted and asked for the plinth so that this can be completed before this years event . |