Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 2 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 3 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 4 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |
| 5 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 6 | er , the book has been very heavily attacked by contemporary writers even mentioned passing for the . |
| 7 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 8 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 9 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 10 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 11 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 12 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 13 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
| 14 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's time you stopped waving for a minute and listened to me . |
| 16 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , who puts scores of women through her Tums & Bums exercise classes , replied : ‘ Most people phoned hoping for a magic remedy but it does n't exist . |
| 17 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 18 | Milwall just caught sleeping for a moment can get a good ball in for here and Hendry it 's an own goal . |
| 19 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 20 | At Kensington Palace and Highgrove the couple entertained little , so rarely in fact that their butler Allan Fisher described working for the Wales 's as ‘ boring ’ . |
| 21 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 22 | One matron declared that if Ms Wilikins-the accent was on the Ms — came looking for a seat in Camberley she would receive short shrift . |
| 23 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 24 | Celtic are likely to be without the last Parkhead man to score , Joe Miller , injured playing for the Scotland Under-21s in midweek . |
| 25 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 26 | France 's Channel 5 — La Cinq — abandoned its fight to survive just as the Independent Broadcasting Authority opened bidding for the new British station with a warning of the commercial risk . |
| 27 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 28 | Coleridge and Sara fixed their wedding for early October , and in the meantime began looking for a home . |
| 29 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 30 | Since it would be a temporary work programme , and not a training scheme , these ‘ intermediate workers ’ would be paid the weekly rate for the job , minus the pay for the day spent searching for an alternative form of employment . |