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

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1 The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights .
2 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 .
3 They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar .
4 BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway .
5 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 .
6 She rose and stooped for the shell .
7 Without a word , Roberts rose and headed for the service hatch .
8 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 .
9 He stopped and thought for a moment .
10 When he realized that Adam was not one of his colleagues , he stopped and reached for the revolver in his belted holster .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake .
14 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 .
15 Instinct attached my hands to the reins as she accelerated and headed for home with me in tow .
16 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 .
17 It is his word that makes us aware that Jesus Christ came and died for us , that God loves us .
18 he came and asked for the duster and the polish
19 ‘ 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 .
20 Feted as a genius at twenty-one , wined and dined for his striking originality , the world his oyster and a nice vivacious wife to boot …
21 He said yesterday : ‘ It would be my biggest ever game for the club , and it 'll be the biggest since I played and scored for Portsmouth in the FA Cup semi-finals last season .
22 As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them .
23 With remarkable skill he identified and presented for selection a group of some of the leading statesmen concerned with their welfare .
24 To this she agreed and sat for Deverell , William Holman Hunt [ q.v. ] , and for ( Sir ) John Everett Millais [ q.v. ] as the drowned Ophelia .
25 As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance .
26 It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house .
27 We ask this in the name of him who lived and died for us even Jesus Christ our Lord .
28 So do major prints by Sam Francis ( who lived and worked for a while in Japan ) .
29 Inspired by the coral coasts of Papua New Guinea ( where Liz lived and worked for nine years ) , this aquarium on silk is made by using a rubber-based glue called gutta in the same way that wax is used in the batik process .
30 With World War II came one more hit , Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary ? ( 1944 ) , which Lynn produced and played for more than two years at the Duke of York 's Theatre and a further two years on tour .
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