Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've even had a letter from the President 's office asking for your date of return . |
| 2 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 3 | I picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals hoping for a quiet hour or two by the river while they were manoeuvring . |
| 4 | He watched the vicar 's face waiting for the thunderous ‘ thou shalt be cast into the eternal fires ’ glare but he only smiled and shook her hand . |
| 5 | In 1936 he had been a member of the Archbishop 's committee preparing for a conference to be held at Oxford on Church , Community and State . |
| 6 | Indonesia and Malaysia have responded belligerently to the European parliament 's resolution calling for a ban on imports of tropical hardwoods . |
| 7 | In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil . |
| 8 | Look in the phone book for your local TEC ( Training and Enterprise Council ) ; many sponsor short courses with development consultants such as Dow-Stoker 's Women into Management , or Jane Goodwin 's Professional Updating for Women in Management held at Westminster College , Oxford . |
| 9 | And so Harrison of Caldbeck and Robinson of Buttermere — wrestlers were always known by name and village both — were circling about each other 's conversation trying for a grip . |
| 10 | By contrast , where time is not of the essence for the service of a landlord 's notice calling for a rent review , mere delay by the landlord , however lengthy and even if coupled with hardship to the tenant , does not of itself destroy the contractual right which the landlord has to serve a notice . |
| 11 | The same conclusion would probably be reached if the tenant 's break notice had to be served before the last date for service of the landlord 's notice calling for a rent review . |
| 12 | It was Mrs Craven 's garden , and when she died so suddenly , Mr Craven locked it and buried the key — Oh , I must go , I can hear Mrs Medlock 's bell ringing for me . ’ |
| 13 | THE DEATH OF TWO NORTH WEST INSTITUTIONS HAS CAUSED SADNESS WITH A PIT SHUTTING AND A FAMOUS STORE 'S TILLS RINGING FOR THE LAST TIME |
| 14 | How beautifully the expert couple danced , their spines no doubt complaining with age , the woman 's feet grumbling for their slippers . |
| 15 | The jury at Bristol Crown Court was told that Mantack took with him a tape he had made of a woman 's voice crying for help . |
| 16 | German doctors at a university hospital in Bavaria planned to keep the unnamed brain-dead woman 's body functioning for the sake of the child , which was not due to be born until next April . |
| 17 | Anyone who comes to Rolle 's lyrics looking for the subtle music of variety of stress within a regular syllabic pattern will be brought up short by an unpredictability of both syllabic and stress systems which lurch uneasily from one banal sing-song pattern to another . |
| 18 | Babble of voices below — a man 's voice calling for quiet . |
| 19 | The social cost is higher still if oligopolists waste society 's resources lobbying for monopoly power or incurring unnecessary expenditure to deter entrants . |
| 20 | ‘ So we 'll no more go a-Land-Roving so late into the night , ’ sang Daisy five minutes later , as , dizzy with pride and vodka , she weaved back to Drew 's boot looking for her bag and went slap into Drew . |
| 21 | Little old women in mink shawls getting fat on pastries , resting their aching feet from tramping miles of John Lewis 's carpet looking for a tablecloth . |
| 22 | After the failed offensives of the autumn , Pétain wrote a report which conveyed a barely disguised criticism of Joffre 's bull-headed striving for a percée . |
| 23 | In 1915 he learnt of a doctor 's practice going for sale at Collier 's Forge , near Stourbridge in the Midlands . |
| 24 | It is seen at Harman 's Cross waiting for passengers to arrive off the train to take them on to Corfe Castle . |
| 25 | When she looked back towards the house , Carla 's face was at the window , peering out like a sailor 's wife watching for masts at the quayside . |
| 26 | The news that Abbey National 's finance director is leaving for condoms to Marigold gloves group London International sent the bank 's share running for cover . |
| 27 | The news that Abbey tor is leaving for condoms to Marigold gloves group London International sent the bank 's shares running for cover . |
| 28 | But the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority has introduced a private member 's bill asking for a ten-year extension of its powers to reclaim Seal Sands . |
| 29 | James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner , only to find a cargo ship and a deck-hand 's job waiting for him . |
| 30 | Yet it was Bridgeman who , at the special National Union Conference in July 1906 , seconded Maxse 's motion calling for the reform of Conservative Central Office , a motion which stemmed directly from Maxse 's ‘ paranoid ’ view of the obstructiveness of the Party mandarins towards the tariff campaign . |