Example sentences of "and [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 2 | Already equipped for this the fire brigade provided tarpaulins and arranged for more to be sent round . |
| 3 | Raising the trapdoor a little more so he could see out , he cautiously pushed out the barrel of the shotgun and checked for any sign of enemy personnel , as best as he could in his limited field of vision . |
| 4 | For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants . |
| 5 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 6 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 7 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 8 | Leonard could be depressive along with many other poets ( the psycho-endocrinological critique of poetry has yet to be written ! ) ; he could also be uplifting and assertive ; he could , indeed , write ‘ about something ’ to use Faulkner 's phrase from The Bear , and did so to the advantage of large numbers of people who gladly read , and asked for more . |
| 9 | She expressed a warm opinion of the piece and asked for more of her work . |
| 10 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 11 | When he received a Mickey Mouse , he swelled triumphantly , and asked for another . |
| 12 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 13 | He finished the beer and asked for another . |
| 14 | So she gave Jamie to a horse dealer called Liz Burt and asked for another in return . |
| 15 | Northallerton magistrates sentenced the 20-year-old to a total of seven months in a youth custody centre after he admitted two burglary charges and asked for another seven offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 16 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 17 | The super-sharp , non-clogging blades of this Draper Rasp Set are designed for fast cutting and shaping for all sorts of materials . |
| 18 | Educated , like Lilian Lawson , at Donaldson 's School and the Mary Hare Grammar School , Irene qualified as a teacher and taught for some years at the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle-upon-Tyne before joining the staff of the BDA in 1981 . |
| 19 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times . |
| 22 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 23 | Its principal strengths lie in the ability to ( a ) make selective use of available visual cues ( for fluent readers much of the visual stimulus remains unattended [ Just & Carpenter , 1987 ] ) and ( b ) utilise an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process and compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 24 | ‘ But the one true faith , ’ went on Constance balefully , ‘ have gone and fallen for that codswallop . |
| 25 | But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year . |
| 26 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 27 | Erm the tools were made up in a kit and er every time there was a work study exercise done on a job , er the tools were all numbered and laid aside and registered for that particular item . |
| 28 | Others were running wild , frightened of human contact and impossible to catch and treat for many days . |
| 29 | The microtitre plates were washed thoroughly with PBS-Tween and incubated for another 30 minutes with alkaline-phospatase ( ALP ) conjungated rabbit anti-human γ chain or rabbit anti human α chain antisera ( Dako , Glostrup , Denmark ) diluted 1:400 in PBS-Tween . |
| 30 | Stir in the monkfish cubes and simmer for another 5 minutes or until fish is just done . |