Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , Hoving became rapidly intoxicated with his own power and was incapable of maintaining the balance between forcefulness and arrogance , between populism and vulgarity ; between protecting and caring for the art under the Met 's roof and blithely selling it heedless of scholars or donors . |
| 3 | At the coal face , the butties were responsible for the actual mining processes , overseen by colliery company officials ; the butties were in charge of organizing and paying for the winning of coal , though not in all cases for its transport to the pithead . |
| 4 | About 60 per cent ignored accusations of womanising and voted for the 46-year-old governor of Arkansas , giving him a landslide win over President Bush . |
| 5 | It would , he had informed her at their first meeting , be mostly a matter of watching and listening for the moment . |
| 6 | According to Electronic News , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is in final discussions with Apple Computer Inc and the AT&T Co-Eo Inc-Matsushita Electric Industrial Co before deciding whether to go for the architecture of the Advanced RISC Machines Ltd ARM-based Newton , or the AT&T Co Hobbit-based device . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Millie 's mistress , frustrated at being parted from the family she had devoted herself to rearing and longing for the freedom to travel and relax , stayed loyal to her husband 's ambitions . |
| 8 | The demand must also specify someone with whom the debtor can communicate with a view to securing or compounding for the debt to the creditor 's satisfaction or , as the case may be , establishing to the creditor 's satisfaction that there is a reasonable prospect that the debt will be paid when it falls due . |
| 9 | And reducing the amount of time spent on figures enables them to concentrate on reviewing and forecasting for the group . |