Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] for the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 2 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 3 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 4 | Finally , thank you to all those readers who wrote from smallholdings all over Britain expressing their support for the John McCarthy campaign . |
| 5 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
| 6 | Well folks , Here is my virgin entry into the world of the Leeds-United mailing list ( not counting my plea for the Leeds-Crewe score on Saturday whilst shackled to a PC ) . |
| 7 | ‘ If I could have the same result again , I would be delighted , ’ said Yorath after naming his squad for the November 18 game . |
| 8 | In January 1990 , Ada wrote to the US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , reiterating his call for the USA to return the Guam Naval Air Station to civilian use in the light of US announcements of future base closures elsewhere . |
| 9 | President Bush , under a drizzle of criticism , was finding his nominee for the CIA directorship , Robert M Gates , was so implicated in earlier bits of skulduggery as to be a tough item to sell . |
| 10 | In one room Frank Gehry has designed an installation outlining his plans for the Bilbao museum , a series of soft-shouldered , interconnecting shapes arranged in a sort of artful pile . |