Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spend months on end continuously on the wing , feeding by catching insects in mid-air , mating by coupling high in the sky and tumbling downwards interlocked for hundreds of feet , and presumably even sleeping on the wing . |
| 2 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 3 | One who had arrived there as the convulsions started was Charlton Heston who achieved almost instant stardom and became especially known for his appearances in the biblical epics . |
| 4 | The result is that in 1981 the cores and rings together accounted for nearly 9 out of 10 of the British population . |
| 5 | Glasgow-born Mr Buckley began his career with Partick Thistle and has also played for Doncaster , Leeds and Scunthorpe . |
| 6 | The Glasgow-born player began his career with Partick Thistle and has also played for Doncaster , Leeds and Scunthorpe . |
| 7 | An Economics graduate , Lesley was Information Technology Strategy Manager with PowerGen and has also worked for ICL and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 8 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 9 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 11 | We were gigging and getting well paid for it . |
| 12 | And having just fought for NCR , Mr Allen is unlikely to propose such a break-up . |
| 13 | The latter had grown rapidly and become well known for its imaginative if sometimes desperate tactics . |
| 14 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The students came from different races in Burma — a few Burmans , more Karens , a Chin or two , a Kachin and several Anglo-Burmans and one Indian ; so living , learning and worshipping together called for and indeed produced a spirit of racial understanding and unity . |
| 16 | By tea-time I was aware of walking strangely , and dared not run for the little beeps my botty made . |
| 17 | On 1 October 1181 Mozart and Constanze again left for Prague , with the incomplete score of Don Giovanni . |
| 18 | But he was badly informed again and had n't calculated for the Americans . |
| 19 | She did notice too that Moran was more carelessly dressed than she remembered and had n't shaved for at least a day . |
| 20 | People she had known forever , many of them , and had not seen for ages . |
| 21 | Crewe are top of div 3 by 8 points , and had not lost for about 15 games , so were always going to have confidence , good organisation and scoring ability . |
| 22 | Castro later stated that he favoured political and economic integration with Latin America but had not come begging for aid and had not asked for oil supplies to replace the potential loss of shipments from the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 24 | She was very overactive and had not slept for three nights . |
| 25 | Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets . |
| 26 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 27 | The governor of Cochin-China had arranged the meeting ; on hearing of Mrs. Sherman 's arrival in Hue he had invited them to join his official entourage for the imperial New Year ceremony and had also arranged for Tran Van Hieu to show Joseph the palaces beforehand . |
| 28 | She was a small , fiery Spanish woman who was experienced in marketing and had once worked for Athletico Madrid football club . |
| 29 | The report of an official inquiry , published in January , had said that Gueï was responsible for a violent raid on a student hostel in May 1991 [ see pp. 38278-79 ] and had specifically called for his immediate punishment . |
| 30 | But she was n't worried about the way the script finished up and had apparently asked for changes herself . |