Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 3 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 4 | On the way home in the taxi ( Nigel was indulging them for once — he could n't let Gina use her bike under the circumstances ) he took delight in telling her she had a spot on her backside . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 6 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought Oliver was getting them for Rosie . ’ |
| 8 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 9 | Antoinette was being a pest , as usual , and Tante Héloise was scolding me for not wanting to play with her . ’ |
| 10 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 11 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 12 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 13 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 14 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 15 | A man was preparing something for supper at a table . |
| 16 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
| 17 | This lotus-eating life was doing nothing for her . |
| 18 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 19 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 20 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 21 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 22 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 23 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 24 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 25 | Samuel Pipkin was tensing himself for the coming life and death struggle this evening , when the vital decision would be made by the Prince of Wales , and Mr Thackeray would be avenged . |
| 26 | Felicity was Saving Herself for her Wedding Night . |
| 27 | She wondered whether Bryony was offended ; perhaps she thought Carolyn was criticizing them for not keeping it cleaner . |
| 28 | John was taking her for granted , so were the children . |
| 29 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 30 | Robert Sheldrake was taking it for granted that the only threat to his practice was that of two small-animal vets , and even that was sufficient for him to be rather unpleasant . |