Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 2 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 3 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 4 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 5 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 6 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 7 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 8 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 9 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 10 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 11 | The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days . |
| 12 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 13 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 14 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 15 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |
| 16 | One of the brigade 's proudest possessions is a letter from King George V , thanking them for the part they played in saving the Royal Train during the disastrous fire in the Works in 1933 , when £30,000 worth of damage was caused . |
| 17 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 18 | Should n't I be compensating someone for the loss of the Seren ? ’ |
| 19 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 21 | Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book . |
| 22 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 23 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 24 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 25 | She had butterflies inside , nerving herself for the questions she was about to ask . |
| 26 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 27 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 28 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 29 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 30 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |