Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A note through her letter box was waiting for Clarissa when she got back late from rehearsal . |
| 2 | But he does not seem to have noticed that Sulla and his friend Pompey were heading for self-deification : death spared him the task of having to account for the apotheosis of Caesar , Posidonius found mystical postures and bogus oracles among the supporters of the slave-king Eunus and of the barbarous Mithridates . |
| 3 | At the High Court in London , Andrew Graham and his wife Irene are battling for compensation from waste disposers Rechem International . |
| 4 | Andy has a party that night , partly for me and partly because his pal Howie is leaving for a job on the rigs the following day . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps our friend Fagg is looking for enlightenment about the role of the Vietnamese in the Second World War , or by chance Glastonbury is investigating recent discoveries of esoteric viruses . ’ |
| 6 | When we were children , about two days before Christmas , my mother used to face us all defiantly , and say your Aunty May 's coming for Christmas , and we all used to scream no , no , not Aunty May please . |