Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] and [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 2 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 3 | Ensure there is no petty cash owed and arrange for any outstanding telephone bills to be paid . |
| 4 | It is a place specialized and designated for looking at painting or drawing or sculpture as art . |
| 5 | She believed in the reality of something ordained by God and described in a book of Holy Scripture read and remembered for thousands of years ; whereas he believed in the reality of something described in the pages of Saunder 's News-Letter & daily Advertiser , which people were unlikely to remember the very next morning . |
| 6 | They also give the Commissioners power to remove the person appointed and provide for him to make reports to the Commissioners . |
| 7 | The most welcome caller is not the one who rings up with a carefully arranged bouquet of words delivered ‘ at the double ’ ; it is the one who calls to enquire , to listen , and to sympathise when necessary , leaving the elderly person feeling warmed and cared for . |
| 8 | Francis Mulhern has argued that Scrutiny developed and propagated for the profession of English studies an ideological framework suited to the maintenance of a talent-governed career structure which eventually came to dominate the profession as a whole . |
| 9 | James Westbrook and Annette Friend play an evening of music written and arranged for classical guitar duet . |
| 10 | A general term for cheap , soft alloys usually lead or copper based and used for simple castings . |
| 11 | The slides were dehydrated through graded ethanol baths with 0.3 M NH 4 -Acetate , air dried and processed for autoradiography . |
| 12 | National officials answer the Commission fears of fraud by proposing a system of double-checking on traders , whereby they would be obliged to list every item exported and imported for spot-checking . |
| 13 | Firstly , by what mechanism do patients or consumers become insured and , secondly how is health care supplied and paid for ? [ … ] under the pure Type 11 model described here , effectively all residents of a locality would be assumed to be ‘ insured ’ with their local health authority . |
| 14 | There is also some evidence , but very limited indeed , that girls may prefer a less competitive and more collaborative style of working , so that classrooms which are resource based and organised for group working tend to be classrooms where girls thrive . |
| 15 | The glass rocked and wavered for an instant before it fell and a dark pool of wine spread over the tablecloth between them . |
| 16 | Grammar boxes — the target structure explained and exemplified for clarification and for reference |
| 17 | Subscribers can also save themselves £275 if they pay up early : they will have their BBC selector or decoder installed and maintained for one year at the site of their choice for free . |
| 18 | They want to make housework recognised and valued for what it is — necessary social labour . |
| 19 | Eventually a Cun bowed and indicated for his brethren to follow him ; the others snarled at the Galks and walked away . |
| 20 | Before long , there was a new interest and activity in Dada 's life — an interest provided and paid for by Aunt Tossie , who had once divined how the extravagant purchase of the Bentley and the Purdey guns might , in some practical way , alleviate the loss of her wicked sister , his Love and Life ; would at any rate restore something to his self-esteem . |