Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The camp guards had allowed the baby six months ' life and then , when Elisabeth was selected for the officers ' brothel and her breasts required for purposes other than those of nourishing a Jewish infant , a non-commissioned officer , having polished his boots , drawn up the mess accounts , written an affectionate note to his wife and son and relieved his bladder , took Elisabeth Danziger 's baby from her arms and dashed out its brains against the stone wall outside his office . |
| 2 | TWO members of a Granada TV news team were robbed while in the US to film Laura before she and her parents left for home . |
| 3 | The declaration of war had meant that this had to be closed , Sister sent back to Australia , and her nurses recruited for duty with the forces . |
| 4 | The first Commissioner to be appointed is Gill Rowlands , and her office opened for business in December 1988 . |
| 5 | Between the covers , the endpapers are elegant and sepia-tinted : at the front a romantic photograph of Menabilly , the large , elegant house in Cornwall where du Maurier and her family lived for years , and , at the back , a mirroring idyllic picture of du Maurier and her three young children , sitting , in all the innocence of short white socks , on a fallen tree trunk with a wide view of the sea behind them . |
| 6 | In Paris , where she and her husband performed for refugees , the theatre was so crowded that there was no room for many parties of children who had lost their parents and were in the care of relief organisations . |
| 7 | Teacher education , then , provides for the appraisal of ideas in order to make them more practically effective , because an understanding of abstract concepts and their relationships allows for adaptability in their realization . |
| 8 | Lymphocytes that have been successfully transduced ( that is , they express the genes carried by the virus ) are selected and their population expanded for reintroduction into the patient . |
| 9 | As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . |
| 10 | Thus a king would be shown in full coronation robes , holding the sceptres of estate and with a crown on his head , a bishop in full pontificals , a knight in his finest suit of armour and his lady dressed for Court . |
| 11 | Mr Asquith considers the King would be constitutionally justified in giving an absolute refusal … there can be no possible justification for a third Election within a year ; and , if on the King 's refusal to dissolve Parliament Mr Ramsay MacDonald resigned , and his Majesty sent for Mr Asquith , the latter would accept all responsibility for the King 's action . |
| 12 | AFTER AN INCONCLUSIVE day spent discussing the caesura of ‘ Sonnet ’ 's opening line , Luke and his colleagues went for cocktails at Strabismus . |
| 13 | All London came out on to the streets to watch when Essex and his men left for Ireland . |
| 14 | Early the next morning , Corbett and his party left for Queensferry , fully armed . |
| 15 | We are taking details , legal advice and our rights to sue for damages are fully reserved . |