Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] for [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 2 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 3 | But you do n't need to apply for or take a Compact job if you do n't want to ! |
| 4 | First , we will need to look for and promote new kinds of stories . |
| 5 | The systematic activation of prior knowledge can act to prepare for and deepen the likely response to a text . |
| 6 | It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve . |
| 7 | 3.6 agrees to co-operate with , and at 's expense to execute any documents and do such other things as may be necessary in the opinion of 's Counsel , to enable to apply for and/or secure any copyright registration that may be necessary for the Work or the Converted Text of the Work . |
| 8 | Such procedures of space definition can thus be employed to search for or specify general or specific relationships between associating spaces . |
| 9 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 10 | The kind of standards of performance which you need to search for and devise are ones that rely as far as possible on observable facts rather than mere opinion . |
| 11 | The criterion-referencing of assessments is not an essential feature of graded tests , but it is an approach which has been strongly recommended because it is intended to make clearer the targets which pupils need to aim for and to provide information on achievements for parents , teachers and employers . |
| 12 | ‘ They have to account for and justify what clothing they choose to wear , if they are on the Pill , their behaviour , and lifestyle . |
| 13 | Good music resembles good speech : a sentence needs to work towards a main point and then decline before beginning again , while in a whole speech we have to prepare for and build towards the main point of the argument . |