Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's say that I 'm booking my holidays for January , ’ he replied . |
| 2 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 3 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 4 | IXI managing director , Ray Anderson , says his company is girding its loins for the ‘ mother of all battles ’ as it seeks to drive into Sun Microsystems Inc turf armed with X.desktop over OSF/Motif . |
| 5 | Girding its loins for a deeper plunge into the commercial market , Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced a strategic relationship with Lotus Development Corp that will see Lotus Notes , cc:Mail , Ami Pro and Freelance Graphics ported to its first native Unix platform , HP/UX . |
| 6 | There was the usual battery of clicks and coughs which signalled that the internal communications system of the Cathedral was girding its loins for action . |
| 7 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 8 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 9 | By 1953 , however , with Conservative rural constituencies pressing their MPs for a rural electrification subsidy , and the Minister looking more favourably on capital expenditure for this purpose , the Area Board chairmen hammered out a national plan for rural electrification , which was finally agreed at an extended and controversial meeting at a country hotel in Moretonhampstead in 1953 . |
| 10 | That could leave broadcasters , manufacturers and admen , faced with competition from less-restricted foreigners , pressing their governments for more liberal treatment . |
| 11 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 12 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 13 | He was ushered forward after cooling his heels for four minutes . |
| 14 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 15 | But Michael Barnes is keeping his plans for that celebration time secret — the most important thing right now is getting the Opera House all lit up again for Jack and the Beanstalk . |
| 16 | The Jordanian canteen manager noticed that the expiry date stamped on the cases by the Dutch manufacturers had already passed ; he sent a telex to Tripoli explaining his reasons for refusing to accept delivery , and then went on holiday . |
| 17 | While he was there , he got an invitation from Archbishop Hugh to go to Lyons , and from Lyons he wrote to the pope explaining his reasons for leaving England . |
| 18 | A share for everybody would mean less than half a mouthful and if " everybody " meant natives as well , the amount you received would hardly be worth opening your jaws for . |
| 19 | We 're just unwinding before girding our loins for London . |
| 20 | To add insult to injury , our family health services authority is returning our claims for Haemophilus influenzae type B immunisation unpaid . |
| 21 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
| 22 | It is also understood that these Biros were capable of telepathically transmitting their cries for freedom to companions of their tormentors , with the result that these would remark , for no logical reason , ‘ You look a right prat with that thing hanging round your neck , throw it away . ’ |
| 23 | They believe that such a move could provoke Labour into accepting their terms for a partnership government as its anxiety to hold office mounted . |
| 24 | The Government has had to stop indexing their pensions for some years now . |
| 25 | A snowfall the previous night , however , had covered the tracks of Graham Little and A. Baker , who had climbed it the day before — also singing its praises for the deep caves and icicles . |
| 26 | But even as Elizabeth Mowbray was finalising her plans for departure , Fate intervened . |
| 27 | And its feminist interests in social relations link it with disciplines like sociology and history , making it more interdisciplinary than most psychology , maintaining its hopes for change and even a complete paradigm shift in the discipline ( e.g. Parlee 1979 , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 29 | You are unlikely to be using their services for material to send out to the media , though they could be a useful source of illustrations for internal publications , but you may be able to place some of your material with them for use by other organisations . |
| 30 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |