Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More innovatively , companies signing up for the programme will be legally committed to going through a conciliation process to sort out unforeseen interoperability problems . |
| 2 | Half-back Mike Ford sent Ellery Hanley racing through for the opening try . |
| 3 | As a former Cabinet minister , George Younger is entitled to ennoblement in the Dissolution Honours , but with 10 fellow Conservatives queuing up for the Lords John Major may decide that Younger should be the one to miss out . |
| 4 | He spent 1990 watching his paymasters demolish the investment bank that he had spent the previous seven years building up for the Pru 's assault on Wall Street . |
| 5 | And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school . |
| 6 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 7 | Film scripts specified free-spirited nymphets in mini-skirts , and there were younger actresses with more malleable identities queuing up for the parts . |
| 8 | The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night . |
| 9 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 10 | Crowds waited outside the venue to catch a glimpse of pop stars turning up for the awards ceremony , being televised on ITV by Carlton tonight . |
| 11 | There were at least two world champions lining up for the start and many seasoned and experienced drivers . |
| 12 | Frank was mentioned as one of the players lining up for the attacker spot — but Olsen chose Mjelde from our local league — top scorer this year in Norway — for the reserve spot after Fjortoft . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 14 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 15 | It was of a man reaching out for the moon , crying ‘ I want , I want . ’ |
| 16 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 17 | Over the years , the numbers turning out for the clash have dwindled and the match is now normally 18 a-side . |
| 18 | Ward was on his feet in a flash , his gloved right hand reaching out for the other 's arm . |
| 19 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
| 20 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 21 | can we put can we put problem solving in for the moment ? |
| 22 | A respectable attempt at comic characterization , its undiminished contrivance ultimately mars the simplicity of It Only Takes a Moment , already performed as a send-up of movie love balladry , with townspeople and extras wandering in for the chorus . ’ |
| 23 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 24 | Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend . |
| 25 | Langer racing in for the kill |
| 26 | A predator dashing in for the kill has no time to assess the minute details of the eyes to detect whether they are real or false . |
| 27 | A hunting shark closing in for the kill homes in on the body electricity given off by its victim . |
| 28 | A very important time coming up for the club , some very important games , no more important to people in this area than the game at Swindon on Tuesday night , But then away to Middlesborough , home to West Ham , still something to play for for Oxford United this season if the results keep going their way ? |
| 29 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |