Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack .
2 He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer .
3 But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction .
4 Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) .
5 It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious .
6 they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena .
7 The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival .
8 There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers .
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