Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By identifying cash deficits at the planning stage a firm will be in a good position to arrange financing for the deficit . |
| 2 | Thurso could not afford the £300 needed for the charter in 1876 when , hard on the heels of the Prince and Princess of Wales ' visit to ‘ The Exhibition ’ , the Town Council proposed applying for the honour . |
| 3 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 4 | ‘ Frank Strandli ( 21 ) is leaving Leeds to try qualifing for a place in the WC squad . |
| 5 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 6 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 7 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 8 | Kate obtains a copy of Sheila Kitzinger 's The New Good Birth Guide and Gordon Bourne 's Pregnancy and starts looking for a hospital that gets two stars and is nearby . |
| 9 | ‘ The players should not need motivating for a match against Manchester United . |
| 10 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 11 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 12 | This represents a notional calculation of the benefit gained by living in one 's own house or , in other words , the rent which one would consider paying for the use of the house . |
| 13 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 14 | It is a lively body of law capable of adaption and expansion to meet fresh needs calling for the exertion of the discipline of law . ’ |
| 15 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 16 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 17 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 18 | When he had departed for Benghazi he had left Lord Jellicoe in charge at Kabrit , and on 20 May Jellicoe wrote to MEHQ asking for an order to be issued to the Commando to release the men . |
| 19 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 20 | It seems likely that in very primitive multicellular forms the main mode of communication was chemical — a substance released by one cell , say signalling for the cell to contract , could fairly quickly diffuse to other cells , ensuring that they too contracted . |
| 21 | All parents hope their child will enjoy reading for the pleasure of it . |
| 22 | Faith 's day starts at around 6am when baby Jake wakes up and starts yelling for a feed . |
| 23 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 24 | A quotation from Charles Lawson Ltd for the impact absorbing surfacing for the perimeter of the sandpit for the Nursery Play Group . |
| 25 | But these were succeeded by bright little bandboxes of social aspiration ; newly painted doors , carriage lamps , an occasional hanging basket , the front garden paved to provide standing for the car . |
| 26 | Morris was concussed playing for the North at the weekend . |
| 27 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's time you stopped waving for a minute and listened to me . |
| 29 | The tension disc at the top of the yarn mast will need adjusting for the thread . |
| 30 | The alternatives include Romania , described unequivocally by a friend as ‘ pretty dreadful ’ , and Bulgaria which has well organised skiing for the beginner and early intermediate , plus night life fuelled by plum brandy , very acceptable wine and elaborate gymnastic displays . |