Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the birth less than six weeks away , Jacqui is juggling a hectic schedule between work and planning for the new arrival . |
| 2 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 3 | An essential element in job creation is the provision of training for school leavers and retraining for the long term unemployed . |
| 4 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |
| 5 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 6 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 7 | A line creeping forward , and a rabble of men leaving the hatch and hurrying for the first bench place they could find . |
| 8 | SFA lists certain criteria to be used to judge relevant experience and understanding for the particular transaction . |
| 9 | Last night , she said she would be taking a play to the Edinburgh Festival and directing for the first time . |
| 10 | It was the people that were being drawn by the nose and paying for the whole thing . |
| 11 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 12 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 13 | In deaf clubs and institutes throughout the country , there was also much fund-raising and knitting for the armed services . |
| 14 | A Charter making Stockport a free borough was granted by the Earl of Chester in about 1220 ; and a second Charter granted in 1260 gave the right to hold a market each Friday and an annual Fair , commencing on St. Wilfred 's Day and running for the seven days following . |
| 15 | After all , private-sector returns have been above 5% and rising for the past five years . |
| 16 | Working on board can build up a hearty appetite and catering for the 180 crew on board Balder has been managed by P&O Catering . |
| 17 | Suddenly it is all about hard work , grafting for each other and scratching for the odd result that might suddenly spark your confidence . |
| 18 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 19 | Teachers regard time for cooperative planning to be crucial to effective learning and teaching for the wide range of ability their pupils have . |
| 20 | For my own part , I enjoyed reading the old Punch and writing for the new one . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 23 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 24 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 25 | Afterwards , when Sara 's health and happiness had been toasted , there was music and dancing for the whole household . |
| 26 | Dad 's Army and waiting for the final push — ( l-r ) Hill , Teague ( obscured ) , Winterbottom , Dooley , Probyn and Ackford ( the only one to have retired so far ) . |
| 27 | But the complication involved in writing the program and allowing for the high number of physical variables made it impracticable at that time . |
| 28 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 29 | It felt rather like laying herself in front of an approaching juggernaut and waiting for the inevitable annihilation to follow … |
| 30 | her assignments have included taking pictures for a record sleeve for Jimmy Nail and working for the Australian bicentennial celebrations . |