Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] for the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | er , the book has been very heavily attacked by contemporary writers even mentioned passing for the . |
| 4 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Celtic are likely to be without the last Parkhead man to score , Joe Miller , injured playing for the Scotland Under-21s in midweek . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 13 | German units were now leaving Sicily in a steady trickle as the Luftwaffe began regrouping for the forthcoming attack on Russia . |
| 14 | They began training for the finals in January involving twice-weekly practice sessions in the Barlaston canteen after work . |
| 15 | Everyone in the class started laughing and the teacher began searching for the culprit . |
| 16 | Antony grinned in resignation at Connon and began searching for the tablecloth . |
| 17 | He had written for the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ on the subject during the seasons of 1933/4/5 , then in 1937 he began writing for the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ — not reporting on county cricket as he had for the ‘ Guardian ’ but instead turning his impeccable knowledge of the game to the study of the nature of the game itself . |
| 18 | I see the camera closing to find her old Masai friends gathering after a day , another of the infinite number of days , spent caring for the cattle . |
| 19 | Either someone on the German side understood English or the TARDIS 's telepathic circuits were at work again , because the Germans also began dashing for the exits on their side of the cavern . |
| 20 | The Marines did n't wait to be told twice , but simply began running for the door , firing as they went . |
| 21 | The couple began fighting for the right to keep children Moses , 14 , Dylan , seven and Satchel , four , after Mia revealed Allen 's affair with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi . |
| 22 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 23 | Nigel Cornell , 27 , has returned to the North-East after several years spent working for the NHS in the Merseyside area . |
| 24 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Frost began working for the education authority in 1943 , carrying out secretarial work in the area office . |
| 26 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 27 | ‘ When you arrived in casualty last night you were covered with blood and they started hunting for the wounds and getting the blood transfusion supplies ready . |
| 28 | Jeff started training for the marathon in October last year , and was running 50 miles a week when he suffered a hip injury . |
| 29 | We started looking for the hole in the long summer holidays . |
| 30 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |