Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 2 | Secondly , and allowing for the possibility that our global score might have detected minor increases in the mucosal neutrophils in some cases of mild active duodenitis , the number of patients with heavy neutrophilic infiltration ( severe active duodenitis ) was also greater in the absence of NSAIDs . |
| 3 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 4 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 5 | All I will say here is that Bukharin was far too sanguine in his treatment of such a transition , even allowing for the fact that it was being treated at a purely abstract level . |
| 6 | I shall draw up a timetable , hour by hour , and allowing for the fact that he must have slept , I expect to see the spaces filled in . |
| 7 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 8 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 9 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 10 | Mr Buxton would not say how many companies were bidding for the work but he hoped the successful tender would be accepted in March , allowing work to start . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not suppose , however , that you will be applying for the position so I shall wait for Alain to send a few people here for me to see . |
| 12 | ‘ The other song was really slammin' for the dancefloor but it 's a love song and it just did n't seem right . |
| 13 | They had the edge , a way of living for the moment that she envied . |
| 14 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 16 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 17 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 18 | George : ‘ You would n't have been born and writing for THE FACE if it was n't for someone spunking off . ’ |
| 19 | Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living . |
| 20 | If so , he will advise you what to do , but you may also find it helpful to obtain a copy of a booklet entitled Caring for the widow and her family , published by CRUSE ( The National Organisation for Widows and their Children , Cruse House , 126 Sheen Road , Richmond , Surrey TW9 1UR ) , which gives a great deal of useful information on all these subjects and many others connected with widowhood . |
| 21 | an inborn sympathy and liking for the native and his affairs … |
| 22 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 23 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 24 | After testing for the role when he executive-produced We 're No Angels , he has taken it up full time , setting up his own company Tribeca Productions and building his own mini-studio in New York . |
| 25 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |
| 26 | I 'm the one who 's sacrificed my life paying for the house and its repairs and its decoration , and all the rest of it … . ’ |
| 27 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 28 | No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm |
| 29 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 30 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |