Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never sit about waiting for the result of one interview . |
| 2 | So what the fucking hell are you doing here apologizing for apologizing for a drug . |
| 3 | She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it . |
| 4 | With no football to relieve his loss , Billy took it hard and , on Tuesday 26 July 1932 , the day after the team had reported for trailing for the new season , he was found dead in one of the dressing rooms . |
| 5 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 6 | The Chelsea ground where John Major and David Mellor spent their Saturdays in quieter times is the prize in a tussle which is already into extra-time and looks like heading for a replay . |
| 7 | So the institutions are being dragooned into subscribing for a package of shares in all 10 companies . |
| 8 | Composers of new hymn tunes should be discouraged from writing for a traditional text which is either wedded to a well-loved tune or has more than one good tune to which it may be sung . |
| 9 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 10 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 11 | ANARAP is also committed to campaigning for a better legal environment for community radios . |
| 12 | He intends to concentrate on writing for the next year , with a summer break to make an irreverent beginner 's Guide to Opera , co-written with his colleague Paul Whitehouse . |
| 13 | In recent months many software vendors which used to concentrate on producing for the Commodore , Amiga and Atari have started to supply versions for the IMB-PC and its clones as well . |
| 14 | Okay so if you can learn to concentrate on looking for the patterns and looking for , Oh well what sort of word is this , is it going to end in a K end in c sound so it 'll be C K. |
| 15 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 16 | You may prefer the flexibility over hours this offers , but you should weigh the pros and cons regarding working for an NHS employer and sickness pay , holiday pay , pension , study leave and so on . |
| 17 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 18 | Trade union leader Bakary Karambo and lawyer and leading human rights activist Demba Diallo , responded by calling for an immediate , indefinite general strike until the UDPN gave up power . |
| 19 | The Hungarian government responded by calling for an emergency meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , and announcing its intention to submit a complaint to the International Court of Justice . |
| 20 | On Oct. 9 , demonstrators responded by calling for the resignation of Crimea 's authorities and cancellation of the new resolution . |
| 21 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 22 | I scooped them up before he could think of asking for a receipt and zippered them into a jacket pocket . |
| 23 | The same sort of approaches were adopted for cycling for the same reasons . |
| 24 | The structure plan can not be seen for providing for a major or sudden change in direction . |
| 25 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 26 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 27 | The State Department announced on Feb. 7 that Felix Bloch , a US diplomat suspected of spying for the Soviet Union , had been informed that he was being suspended without pay with immediate effect . |
| 28 | Britain and Hong Kong have apparently decided against waiting for the Steering Committee of the UN Conference on Indo-Chinese refugees to meet on January 18 before reviewing the situation . |
| 29 | Such consent would not be an answer to a charge of assault , and the policy reasons that forbid consenting adults to engage in fighting for the purposes of assault should apply equally in the case of an affray . |
| 30 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |