Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 2 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 3 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
| 4 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 5 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
| 6 | Nineteenth-century liberalism was to inherit hostility to religious charity without substituting for it the planned charity of the state . |