Example sentences of "and [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you found that you had entered the company of players , of actors , of those descended from strolling vagabonds and historically always noted and envied for the looseness of their morals , then all your Christmases came at once . |
| 2 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 3 | Greenwich Mean Time , Jonas Savimbi , the UNITA leader , telephoned his organization 's radio station , known as " Voice of the Resistance of the Black Cockerel " , and arranged for the ceasefire order to be broadcast . |
| 4 | Dr Manfred Thaller , President of the International Association for History and Computing backed the seminar and arranged for the publication of its proceedings . |
| 5 | Since any further delay would limit the use of this space for this season the chairman went ahead and arranged for the work to be carried out . |
| 6 | Since any further delay would limit the use of this space for this season the chairman went ahead and arranged for the work to be carried out . |
| 7 | He called the RAC once more and arranged for the car to be taken to the edge of Brighton . |
| 8 | Breathing a sigh of relief , I drove over to the local airfield and arranged for the flight to take place a week earlier , just in case . |
| 9 | The pioneer of bee research Karl von Frisch recalls ( and we have observed ) instances in which the trained foragers began to anticipate subsequent moves and to wait for the feeder at the presumptive new location . |
| 10 | The partners have taken the pay cut until next March to see if interest rates fall and to wait for the launch of a new product . |
| 11 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 12 | he came and asked for the duster and the polish |
| 13 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 14 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 15 | Blanche turned her biro slowly round in her fingers , meditating on the patterns created by the octagonal tube of plastic , and asked for the name of the dry cleaner 's . |
| 16 | He then knelt and confessed his sin to God and asked for the forgiveness that is in Christ to be his . |
| 17 | ‘ One member of staff left for a moment and a man in his mid-30s appeared out of nowhere with what appeared to be a gun and pushed it into the other assistant 's ribs and asked for the money . |
| 18 | Mr McAteer said : ‘ I was in the Sheriff Clerk 's Office and asked for the defence documents . |
| 19 | From a cafe " behind the Nile , Frenchman called the Oberoi and asked for the Queen . |
| 20 | Bishop Stratford , preaching on the text ‘ My head is sick ’ , announced the decision to depose the king nevertheless and asked for the assent of the commons . |
| 21 | Next I had yet another idea , I wrote to the American Women 's Club of Thailand and asked for the donation of a video player . |
| 22 | Joseph of Arimathaea , a member of the Sanhedrin who was obviously sympathetic to Jesus ( Matthew claims he had become a secret disciple ) , went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus . |
| 23 | Jeffrey had a word with Serevi , who to Townsend 's bewilderment , appeared at his shoulder and asked for the Gala teenager 's autograph . |
| 24 | Helen to be contacted and asked for the plinth so that this can be completed before this years event . |
| 25 | There also sometimes seems to be a feeling that the media could have got themselves better organised and asked for the material earlier . |
| 26 | They marched into the shop and asked for the manager . |
| 27 | As she spoke , Jack moved his hand gently on to hers and asked for the salt . |
| 28 | As soon as they 'd gone , I got on the phone to Directory Enquiries and asked for the number of the Maidstone hospital . |
| 29 | This neomucisa contains all normal intestinal cell lineages and persists for the life of the animal . |
| 30 | The current account external balance depends on the real exchange rate ( defined as domestic relative to foreign consumer prices and adjusted for the exchange rate ) and domestic and foreign ‘ absorption ’ ( total final expenditure ) . |