Example sentences of "[prep] and [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rehabilitated person is one who has been convicted of and sentenced for an offence or offences and who has not committed a further offence or offences during the appropriate rehabilitation period and that period has expired . |
| 2 | In this state his spirit was said to fly to the other world of spirits and there discover the cause of and cure for a person 's illness , the identity of a malefactor , or the nature of events destined to occur . |
| 3 | On his ‘ Big Red Train Ride ’ in 1977 , Eric Newby found these class approaches to the catching of and waiting for the trains , which have been such a characteristic of colonial societies in India and Africa , still very much the norm in the communist countries . |
| 4 | The poems are full of imagery of and praise for the Bible : |
| 5 | What it means to think of and work for an audience . |
| 6 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
| 7 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 8 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 9 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 10 | With each year that passed , peasant interest in and support for the status quo would increase . |
| 11 | That bombshell , coming from the Labour party at a time when Nottinghamshire miners are continually breaking production records , shows Labour 's lack of faith in and support for the coal industry , and why Nottinghamshire miners abandoned socialism in 1985 . |
| 12 | Although Pittsburgh was severely hit by the decline in the steel industry , its tertiary and quaternary sectors were thriving and there were demands on the city to respond to and cater for the large number of firms locating and expanding their professional and managerial activities there . |
| 13 | Effective school management uses external initiatives as a prompt to and support for the logical next stage of a school 's development . |