Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 Neil teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London and , like most of the artists listed here , teaches and plays regularly for the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford .
2 He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids .
3 And the miserable hotchpotch of confused ideas and pressures was quietly buried in the depths of her mind , just as a wilderness of plants dies down and goes underground for the winter .
4 Her face was a tragic mask , that of a woman who has sent all her sons to a war and waits hourly for the death telegram .
5 A man stranded on a desert island builds a rowing boat and sets out for the nearest land .
6 After this he joined the fire service and works today for the Shropshire Fire Brigade .
7 Not the actual shots , those the Director decides and works out for the style they 're going to shoot in .
8 Why exactly the authorities wish to deprive so many thousand people of their bread and butter when the becak is cheap , pollution-free and makes up for the deficiencies in mass transit , is a mystery .
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