Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 2 | It is the learning process itself which is capable of bringing power to those who feel themselves to be powerless , and galvanising them for action on their own terms . |
| 3 | It is sufficient here to note that culture does not appear to affect the way people rank goals , with the proviso that these are Western concepts , anyway , and translating them for comparison into certain cultures is fraught with difficulties ; often there is no local word available . |
| 4 | I just wondered what your response to it was , seeing as er what you 're doing is getting information to which you 're not entitled , and selling it for money to other people . |
| 5 | The consultation exercise involved supplying members of the Library Advisory Committee ( LAC ) with copies of our current list , and asking them for suggestions for cuts . |
| 6 | This project was designed to study the feasibility of recruiting unemployed French and German teachers and retraining them for jobs as teachers of their native languages in Uk schools . |
| 7 | Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls . |
| 8 | Loving both Augustus Egg and Pablo Picasso and visiting them for decades under the same roof , I feel sentimental about tearing them asunder forever . |
| 9 | But he had experienced complications when using them for logistics in Vietnam . |