Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] for " in BNC.

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1 But your Service wants to get it all sorted and giftwrapped for them ?
2 The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights .
3 His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years .
4 They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar .
5 BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway .
6 In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property .
7 She rose and stooped for the shell .
8 Without a word , Roberts rose and headed for the service hatch .
9 They were equally trusting in sending country customers goods ‘ on approval ’ , selected from catalogues received in the mail which they retained and paid for by cheque , or returned .
10 After a 20 minute incubation at 22°C , MgCl 2 ( to 10mM ) , CaCl 2 ( to 2mM ) and 0.0625 units of DNase I were added , mixed and incubated for a further 60 seconds , after which time 20µg of proteinase K in 100µl of a buffer containing 1% SDS , 100µg/ml tRNA , 200mM NaCl , 20mM EDTA was added and the reaction incubated at 50°C for a further 20 mins .
11 After emptying and washing each well , 100 µl of sample or standard ( diluted 1 in 80 in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , and containing 0.1% Tween and 0.5% bovine serum albumin to prevent non-specific protein binding to the plate ) were added and incubated for one hour .
12 After washing , 100 µl of substrate ( tetramethylbenzidine in DMSO ( 10 mg/ml ) dilutes 1 in 100 in 0.15 M citrate buffer and containing H 2 O 2 to a final concentration of 1.3 M/l ) were added and incubated for a further 15 minutes .
13 Briefly , approximately 10 ng of purified protein A-fusion protein was preincubated in 20 µl of binding buffer ( 10 mM Hepes ( pH 7.9 ) , 60 mM KCl , 1 mM DTT , 1 mM EDTA , 0.25 mg/ml bovine serum albumin and 12% glycerol ) with appropriate competitor DNA for 5 min at room temperature , then 10 fmol ( approx. 20,000 cpm ) of 32 P-labelled , annealed octamer oligonucleotides were added and incubated for a further 20 min at room temperature .
14 He stopped and thought for a moment .
15 When he realized that Adam was not one of his colleagues , he stopped and reached for the revolver in his belted holster .
16 Of all murders serial killings were the most frustrating , the most difficult and the chanciest to solve , the investigation carried on under the strain of vociferous public demand that the terrifying unknown devil be caught and exorcized for ever .
17 He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it .
18 I explained that I was driving and asked for directions .
19 On at least two occasions a lobotomy was considered and rejected for Alfred , who became ill in late 1943 .
20 After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull .
21 Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake .
22 There also sometimes seems to be a feeling that the media could have got themselves better organised and asked for the material earlier .
23 He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime .
24 Instinct attached my hands to the reins as she accelerated and headed for home with me in tow .
25 They were there to be beseeched and entreated for their protection and aid in adversity , but what if they failed ?
26 His practice was an entirely common-law one : he advised and appeared for parties on libel actions ; he advised on contracts and similar matters dealt with in the common-law courts .
27 It is his word that makes us aware that Jesus Christ came and died for us , that God loves us .
28 he came and asked for the duster and the polish
29 ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition .
30 After 48–72 hours , cell extracts were prepared and assayed for CAT activity ( 36 ) .
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