Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had done well in my O-levels , but I had already won the Under-16 British squash championships , and I decided to go for broke and turn professional and see how I got on . |
| 2 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 3 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 4 | They make remarks about an unmanly attitude , and they pretend to look for yellow streaks . |
| 5 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 6 | The monuments in our care are the best and they have survived for specific reasons — yet they are only the tip the iceberg of our archaeological inheritance . |
| 7 | The youth 's uncle , slightly pink , also laughing , accepted the turn in the argument : Idi Amin might be black , he said , but he was a Muslim and he had asked for Libyan aid . |