Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tribune group has sent out a list of candidates who are bidding to join its slate for the 18 Shadow Cabinet places . |
| 2 | The only paper on your desk should be that on which you are currently working and material waiting to receive your attention for the first time . |
| 3 | When Menelik founded Addis Ababa in 1889 the countryside had been forested with juniper and wild olive , but these had soon been cut down for firewood and building material , whereupon Menelik announced that he was going to move his capital for the third time . |
| 4 | The Spectator article secured him an invitation to Hampton Court and , having offered his specification for the repair work , he was duly hired . |
| 5 | Having shown his concern for the problems of multinational capital , Barry then laid it on the line for the Cork objectors : ‘ These objectors must accept that the public and voluntary bodies involved in scrutinizing polluting industries are genuinely concerned and responsible . ’ |
| 6 | A guest at the Los Angeles hotel where the £30,000 video was shot revealed : ‘ Sade kept on having to hold her breath for the scenes in the pool . |
| 7 | Having pledged its support for the environment and the poor , there is mounting pressure for it to institutionalize some safeguards . |
| 8 | occasionally one feels , as a teacher , rather like a soccer referee who , having blown his whistle for the kick-off , finds the players disconcertingly reluctant to make a move and is reduced to dribbling the ball himself furiously from end to end , scoring brilliant goals in undefended nets , while the motionless players look curiously on . |
| 9 | Having loaded your game for the very first time , the last thing you want to do is read an instruction sheet this size . |
| 10 | We had arrived in Indonesia speaking very little of the language , with 20,000 feet of film stock and what was left of Ringo 's £2,000 , intending to film our search for the Bird of Paradise with the Bugis pirates aboard the schooners which Alfred Wallace himself had sailed in 125 years before us . |
| 11 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 12 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 13 | A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive . |