Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 2 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 3 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 4 | Doing sixty miles every hour , and I keep going for ten hours . |
| 5 | Well , I keep waiting for one of these free offers to come in the newspaper . |
| 6 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 7 | I am interested in working for the Forestry Commission , for a national park or getting a job which involves caring for any aspect of the environment . |
| 8 | The passage of the Riot Act of 1715 , which made assembling for political ( as well as other ) purposes potentially a capital offence , reveals how far the Whigs had come from the early days when they had actively promoted political demonstrations and deliberately sought an alliance with " the crowd " . |
| 9 | The catering industry as a whole experiences seasonal demands for additional labour but , more important , those firms which provide catering for special " events " — exhibitions , cultural sporting or social occasions — have to cope with dramatic day-to-day variations in their demand for labour [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 10 | None of this was available to the hard-pressed scholarly hacks in Gissing 's new Grub Street , or to the real-life Francis Thompson , keeping himself just alive by high-quality literary journalism , which involved working for twelve hours every day and taking no holidays . |
| 11 | The transmitter substances which we described in chapters 4 and 6 provided a valuable basis from which to start searching for new drugs . |
| 12 | It may well force you to go looking for more information about your potential audience . |
| 13 | Do you want spelling for all hesi hesitations , ju ju ju just to show that somebody 's hesitated ? |
| 14 | And if you stop running for two blocks , you 're a dead man . ’ |
| 15 | An annual briefing on cable break procedures and other emergencies would be very valuable for everyone who flies gliders , and particularly those who stop flying for long periods over the winter months and so get badly out of practice . |
| 16 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 17 | Very best wishes to you and we hope you keep painting for many years to come . |
| 18 | You keep waiting for more but it does n't come . |
| 19 | You 're really getting through a terrific amount of stuff and you keep asking for more it 's great . |
| 20 | She liked going for slow , rather stately walks in the summer evenings when the shop was closed and the children in bed , and I usually escorted her . |
| 21 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , but I mean , can you imagine paying for that , some of the lot that live on |
| 23 | I think we need soundproofing for these meetings . |
| 24 | We sat shaking for some minutes before regaining sufficient composure to drive on . |
| 25 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : s fly . |
| 26 | They provide backing for such shattering conclusions as the following : |
| 27 | Privately owned papers which are unprofitable do exist , but this is because they receive backing for other purposes — political , in most cases . |
| 28 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 29 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 30 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |