Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 2 | Other people at the Town Hall only spent part of their time working for the Tramways Department . |
| 3 | Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no. 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No. 10 . |
| 4 | Marina spends most of her time caring for the younger children who live with her in the cellar — especially nine-month-old Vedo Besagic . |
| 5 | Somebody who has spent 40 years of his life working for the Scottish Transport Group would receive two thirds of his pensionable salary on retirement . |
| 6 | They sent Hamilton back to Scotland with Ivone Kirkpatrick , one of our men working for the BBC who 'd met Hess a couple of times in Berlin , when he was with the FO . |
| 7 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 8 | She had been in her cottage waiting for the return of Tom and Carrie when a villager ran past shouting news of the fire and she had turned out to help . |
| 9 | Ann Thwaite , in her biography Waiting for the Party , suggests the relevance to The Lost Prince of a certain incident in October 1913 . |
| 10 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 11 | The first Creggan knew of the falling branch was the crack it made , loud and violent and cutting right into his chilly reverie as he huddled in his shelter preparing for the night . |
| 12 | Marshka had arrived late and now sat with Vashinov in his office waiting for the latest report . |
| 13 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 14 | But she did n't know where it was either and soon the whole family was up on their feet looking for the source of the noise . |
| 15 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |
| 16 | Then , and this I should expect very soon , there should be a reply from Greek Intelligence to our query asking for the complete list of places where Andropulos has conducted business , any kind of business , over the past few years . |
| 17 | Mark co-wrote a book Skulduggery about his experiences searching for the Orang-hutan tribes , but it is his most recent adventure — travelling through India on the back of an elephant — which has really captured the public 's imagination . |
| 18 | One of the biggest films of the coming year should be Dracula — and if you can hang on to your book token for a few weeks , it will be worth your while waiting for the publication of Bram Stoker 's Dracula — The Film And The Legend ( Pan , £7.99 ) . |