Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] and [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carson let the door swing behind him , hurrying through into the sitting room and reaching for the receiver . |
| 2 | He can not write for the papers or take part in television programmes and his sole opportunities in public are sharing the replies at question time and answering for the government in adjournment and sometimes in wider debates which concern his ministry . |
| 3 | ‘ Ocelots in the wild are facing the increasing threats of habitat destruction and trapping for the fur trade . ’ |
| 4 | With no previous running experience , Pamela has spent just under two years training and preparing for the race . |
| 5 | He waited until he could hear the water pot being pulled across the floor of the hut and then he entered to find his mother leaning against the mud wall and screaming for the doctor . |
| 6 | The gang was pulling at each other , shouting obscenities , opening windows , smoking , drinking wine , pulling the bell cord and shouting for the bus to get under way . |
| 7 | Labour proposes to get rid of Trust status hospitals , returning them to local authority control and substituting for the internal market a series of performance agreements boosted by incentives . |
| 8 | ‘ Then if you will not , I must ! ’ cried my noble cousin , flinging down his television set and plunging for the door . |
| 9 | A constitutional amendment was approved abolishing the State Council and providing for the election of a State President ; on an interim basis , Bergmann-Pohl assumed the post of acting head of state on April 9 ( replacing Manfred Gerlach who had held the post since December 1989 — see p. 37108 ) . |
| 10 | He will come round the wicket to start probing the rib cage and looking for the catch as the batsman tries to fend off the ball . |
| 11 | They engaged in goal setting and envisioning for the enterprise and changed the methodology by which the business heads reported to control groups from the center . |
| 12 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 13 | Holroyd Smith was called back to overhaul the tramway in 1894 , and he was shocked by what he found : faulty insulators were identified by flooding the conduit with salt water and watching for the smoke to rise ! |
| 14 | Do you remember at the announcement of last year 's results we erm we mentioned that we were concentrating on four themes one 's cost reduction er driving for cash erm , improving our market share and investing for the future . |
| 15 | her assignments have included taking pictures for a record sleeve for Jimmy Nail and working for the Australian bicentennial celebrations . |