Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] for [art] " 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 | I am writing to confirm our order for a 500mm print of a regional mosaic of Wales for reproduction on the front cover of our summer magazine , Rural Wales . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her new secretary was arriving and was going to share her flat for a while . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After quenching her desire to see and experience new things , she was going to ask her boss for a transfer and move to the nearest city , where the office had its headquarters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 10 | A jury has been told that a woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend for the insurance money had no motive . |
| 11 | POLICE are hoping to help their search for a man who attacked a hotel doorman , leaving him in a coma , by broadcasting a plea for help on the BBC 's Crimewatch programme . |
| 12 | A DESPERATE couple in Chelyabinsk , Russia , tried to place a newspaper advert offering to swap their baby for a bigger home . |