Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 2 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 3 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 4 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 5 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 6 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 7 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 8 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 9 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 10 | As a result , a patient can relate to one group of staff during the waking hours , and knows that the same staff will be caring for him during the night period . |
| 11 | Paul speaks of suing for it before the praetor fideicommissarius . |
| 12 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 13 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 14 | Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment . |
| 15 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 16 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 17 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 18 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 19 | Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway . |
| 20 | The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany . |
| 21 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
| 22 | To Sophie 's and Helen 's surprise , Ian Woodall , looking anxious and drawn , was waiting for them at the hospital . |
| 23 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 24 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 25 | They found Carrington and Grant waiting for them in the saloon . |
| 26 | There were police waiting for them in the van and they got another good beating . |
| 27 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 28 | The ticket 's waiting for me at the desk . |
| 29 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're waiting for me at the station . ’ |