Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 2 | Norman has the adrenalin flowing for the Masters , and is confident he will improve on his last two visits , when he missed the cut both times . |
| 3 | In the B flat Trio , Op. 11 I was glad to find the Czechs opting for the composer 's original clarinet rather than the optional violin chosen by the Beaux Arts . |
| 4 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 5 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |
| 6 | The air operations officer was in the middle of co-ordinating the helicopter tasking for the day , when a Wessex landed beside the swimming pool , causing part of the screen fencing to blow into the pool and OC B Company to have a minor sense of humour failure . |
| 7 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
| 8 | Mrs Ramsden 's husband , Jack , whose successful punting exploits have regularly had the bookies reaching for the valium bottle , was at first stunned and angered by the suggestion that anything was wrong with Travelling Light , whom he has backed at 33-1 for the second leg of the Autumn Double . |
| 9 | A Guardian stalwart made a telling observation about him : ‘ While Ian Wolldridge might spend hours searching for the good line , Hugh will spend the time searching for the truth ’ — and suddenly I saw McIlvanney almost as if he were a bare-knuckle fighter in one of his brother 's novels . |
| 10 | ‘ While Ian Wooldridge might spend hours searching for a good line , McIlvanney will spend the time searching for the truth ’ |
| 11 | On 27 May 1685 , only a week after Parliament had convened , a grand committee of the House of the Commons ( comprising some 330 members ) agreed to address the King calling for the enforcement of the laws against " all Dissenters whatsoever from the Church of England " , including Catholics . |
| 12 | My stomach turned over as I watched the ball heading for the out-of-bounds , but to my relief it looked as though it had stayed in , even if it seemed in an awful spot . |
| 13 | Gould recorded the fortnight waiting for the arrival of Stephen Coxen 's bullock train in Maitland as being ‘ pleasantly spent in the bushes of the Hunter among the Satin [ , ] Regent [ , & ] Cat Birds . ’ |
| 14 | to the factory to keep the factory going for the factory you see was up in Hunton 's field and there were a lot of Stronsay men in it . |
| 15 | The only RPG that you wo n't get too embarrassed buying is Toe Jam And Earl , an ideal chill-out kind of game about two alien rappers who strut the screen looking for the missing parts of their spaceship so they can return to planet Funkotron . |
| 16 | From across the open stretch of ground hemmed in by the watercourse and the thicket , from at least half a mile away , I can clearly hear the engang preparing for the damburst of cattle . |
| 17 | Stephen Roche , who has been spending the season preparing for the two big tours of Italy and France , seems to have got it right . |
| 18 | The landladies found the Mites well behaved ; they all had separate tasks for the day , two doing the food shopping for the troupe which the landlady would cook . |
| 19 | 2 An interest meriting protection In order to succeed the party arguing for the validity of the restraint of trade must first persuade the tribunal that the facts demonstrate the existence of a legitimate interest meriting protection . |
| 20 | You should also review the case looking for the more individual features in it . |
| 21 | I bought the biggest mastiffs I could find and sent the beggars screaming for the trees , at least for a while . |
| 22 | None of the sample group were asked to name the candidates standing for the Liberal Democrats , Green Party and British National Party . |
| 23 | ‘ Our Alton depot will get the ball rolling for the National Spring Clean , ’ said United Carriers manager Michael Howe . |
| 24 | Striders fielded an impressive all international line-up which , in spite of the absence of track ace Davy Wilson , racing in America , ADD01 simply left the rest fighting for the runner-up positions . |
| 25 | Batty 's penalties , in the 58th minute for a foul by Darren Moore and 19 minutes later for handball by Chris Curran , left the crowd baying for the blood of referee Clive Wilkes . |