Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could lose everything I 've earned and fought for all my life to get where I got . |
| 2 | He shuffled past well ordered , dusted shelves and racks , and past the little office where his father had sat and schemed for most of his life . |
| 3 | The nature of pollution control work draws attention to these issues because it involves a substantial degree of discretion at field level among staff who are physically dispersed and isolated for most of the day while tending a complex and unpredictable environment . |
| 4 | Packages will be prepared and tested for each topic . |
| 5 | Ensure there is no petty cash owed and arrange for any outstanding telephone bills to be paid . |
| 6 | It was his responsibility to convince the Whale to cooperate in the hunt , so the people of the village might be fed and clothed for another season . |
| 7 | Most of the money is owed by people whose homes have been repossessed and sold for less than their outstanding mortgage . |
| 8 | Weight was measured and recorded for each patient . |
| 9 | Old age is not a sudden event : those becoming dependent must have anticipated and prepared for this stage in some characteristic way , even if by denial . |
| 10 | Baroness Cumberlege said : ‘ I am proud to be associated with this important new initiative to conserve a landscape which I have known and loved for much of my life . ’ |
| 11 | Commenting on her selection , Sue Baring said : ‘ I 'm delighted to have been chosen to stand in a part of the country that I have known and loved for many years . |
| 12 | Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon . |
| 13 | Miss Keeler 's love life had provided a sensational scandal in that a ‘ coloured friend ’ , moved to desperate jealousy by her behaviour , had opened fire at the window of her home and been arrested and charged for that offence . |
| 14 | On March 10 eight Roman Catholic bishops were arrested and interrogated for several hours after a pastoral letter , termed by the government as " seditious " , had been read out in churches . |
| 15 | Laurence McGarry , chairman of Scottish Innovation , said : ‘ We have hoped and worked for this for many years and without the support and assistance from a whole range of people , it would not have happened . |
| 16 | So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it . |
| 17 | Exact sizes have to be cut and prepared for each model . |
| 18 | He had finally been able to confirm what she had believed and prayed for these past six weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ But the one true faith , ’ went on Constance balefully , ‘ have gone and fallen for that codswallop . |
| 20 | Various soldiers had , it said , been tried and imprisoned for such crimes . |
| 21 | Not a big problem , but enough of one to have tried and failed for several years at everything from Weightwatchers to F-Plan . |
| 22 | In due course the information will be processed and used for all kinds of statistical information . |
| 23 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
| 24 | Mona was loved and tolerated for such ethics by a great many people , the young as well as the not so young . |
| 25 | Many temples , caves , burial chambers and ‘ vision pits ’ have been constructed and used for this purpose . |
| 26 | Our analyses also support further our previous finding that basal UOS pressure is highly labile and emphasise that the level of arousal must be recorded and controlled for any valid comparisons of basal UOS pressure . |
| 27 | The best possible module programme , out of hundreds of thousands of possible programmes , is then determined and recorded for that applicant . |
| 28 | This compares , he says , to only 12 applications that will definitely run on all Sparc-based systems , all of which have had to be tested and tweaked for each individual system . |
| 29 | Environmental bantustans are set aside where virtually unrestricted leisure activity is allowed and even encouraged , so that the surrounding area can be strictly controlled and rationed for those interested in a more solitary appreciation of the countryside . |