Example sentences of "and [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | TAKES 25 hectares of pasture that a farmer wants to drain and plough for winter wheat . |
| 2 | Let this woman divorce and disappear for good . |
| 3 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 4 | None of the people on stage knew what was happening , the girls continued to sing their plaintive song and the other men danced on with their own pieces of chiffon , hoping that Ken would go away and disappear for ever . |
| 5 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 6 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Only women who are not in the same circumstances as most women can up and off for six months . |
| 8 | The two sides were a world apart and while Northern hope for successive victories in their final two games for survival , Wigan can relax and prepare for the Silk Cut Cup final at Wembley on May 2 against Castleford . |
| 9 | In Chapman 's view , the foundation of Aston Villa 's long history of success was their ability to plan ahead and prepare for the departure of key players . |
| 10 | The problem is no less with open-ended exercises and unstructured enquiry projects in humanities work , where the teachers need to anticipate and prepare for a wide variety of student response and reaction . |
| 11 | The object of the research is to edit and prepare for publication two of Jeremy Bentham 's major works on constitutional government as a sub-project within the framework of the new edition of the Collected Works . |
| 12 | When Mr George was said he did n't want to give evidence , the judge , Mr Justice Auld , said he had a duty to give evidence … he should sit down and prepare for it . |
| 13 | As the child 's mental processes become more complex , it becomes increasingly able to absorb and construct for itself the complexities of the external world . |
| 14 | Aggressive criticisms of assembly-line education such as this from the 1930s should cause us to stop and think for a moment . |
| 15 | Instead of being encouraged to develop into mature professionals with the ability to learn and think for themselves , we were simply required to regurgitate large amounts of information by rote . |
| 16 | I do n't think this was the case , though , as many women did conform and those who stuck out in the way of Madeline Vesey Neroni and Mrs. Proudie were few and far between — few dared to be too independent or to try and think for themselves . |
| 17 | I suddenly felt I did n't want to paint , painting was just showing off , the thing was to experience and experience for ever more . |
| 18 | Once off the airfield , Stirling gave orders for the jeeps to split up and make for the rendezvous separately , as he was sure that the following morning the sky would be full of angry German fighters out looking for them . |
| 19 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 20 | The community care reforms will produce a new kind of key worker who will organise and budget for packages of care : the care manager . |
| 21 | Night in , night out he sat at home in his basement office dictating his account of the day , and seeking to record and explain for posterity what was going wrong . |
| 22 | He still finds time to draw and paint for pleasure during the day . |
| 23 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Did you try and compensate for that by the way you set up your Cabinet-committee structure ? |
| 26 | It should be possible to detect and compensate for this using ‘ intelligent ’ software routines , but this would seriously complicate the software . |
| 27 | ‘ Lighting can try and compensate for the lack of colour by creating certain moods . |
| 28 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What , when do you want us to come and knock for you ? |