Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should n't I be compensating someone for the loss of the Seren ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 4 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 5 | The work is of a very high standard , with several children who have recently joined the school writing something for the first time . |
| 6 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’ |
| 8 | Using one for the main yarn and one for the weaving yarn , you can produce very serviceable everyday fabrics , for everyday garments . |
| 9 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 10 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 11 | Such was the message Lewis passed on , himself saying nothing for the moment of his own extraordinarily exciting find , but agreeing to pick up Morse in about ten minutes ' time , after briefly reporting in to St Aldate 's . |
| 12 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 13 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 14 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 15 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 16 | Now , he wanted Terry to tell the US government to start doing something for the hostages . |
| 17 | We erm of course , this is besides the ordinary classes that they take erm now I believe there 's doing something for the erm , what was the one I looked at on the board the other day for tracing your ancestors back , you know . |
| 18 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 19 | Saddam has never been known for doing something for the benefit of others . |
| 20 | Mark 's doing something for the Prog . |
| 21 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 22 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 23 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 24 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 25 | Wrap a candle in the end of each tentacle , leaving one for the cane , if preferred . |
| 26 | Wages are a major component of costs for any individual capitalist and are the dominating one for the system as a whole . |
| 27 | It is not just a question of exchanging one for the other . |