Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 2 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 3 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 4 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 5 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 6 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 7 | The post-war expansion of forest cover in Northern countries is effectively " mopping up " increased carbon emissions , so compensating for the loss of tropical forests and countering the greenhouse effect . |
| 8 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 10 | His analysis of French literature ( e.g. Goldmann 1964 ) , both the studies of classic writers ( such as Racine and Pascal ) and of more recent literature , is constantly searching for the world-views of the epoch in which the literature emerged : |
| 11 | A national economic policy designed to reduce public expenditure , to liberate enterprise and to eradicate inflation , combined with a determination to limit local-government spending and intervention , was extremely damaging for the cities and their economies in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 13 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
| 14 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 15 | Is there enough going for the partners — both as a couple and as individuals — to allow them to relinquish their role as parents ? |
| 16 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's life , ’ he said with a pessimism that fed Richard 's gloom , ‘ only waiting for the end . ’ |
| 18 | Agnes is only waiting for the guest to start speaking his reason for coming . |
| 19 | He also alleged that the KGB had recruited hundreds of British traitors who were only waiting for the signal from Moscow to begin destroying Britain 's communication system and military establishments around the country . |
| 20 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 21 | The British government was only waiting for the ECJ to rule ( and its decision was not unexpected ) before reforming the Shops Act . |
| 22 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 23 | ‘ She was only waiting for the kids to grow up and then she said she 'd leave me . |
| 24 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 25 | As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it . |
| 26 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 27 | The first episode had all my friends and colleagues eagerly waiting for the conclusion . |
| 28 | De Craon was sitting in a high-backed chair near the window , a small scroll of parchment on his lap , apparently waiting for the Prince to summon him to an audience . |
| 29 | Twenty or thirty thousand people were kneeling down facing westwards , patiently waiting for the final prayers of Ramadan . |
| 30 | Sheikh , who was batting , stood crouched over his bat , patiently waiting for the moment when Mafouz would decide to let go of the ball . |