Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for the [noun] " 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 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 3 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 6 | He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Forget junk food : soon we 'll be forced to clear the rest of the rainforest , just to provide grazing for the cattle needed to clothe the queue outside London 's posey Friday-nighter Glam . |
| 10 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All parents hope their child will enjoy reading for the pleasure of it . |
| 14 | A quotation from Charles Lawson Ltd for the impact absorbing surfacing for the perimeter of the sandpit for the Nursery Play Group . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Morris was concussed playing for the North at the weekend . |
| 17 | The tension disc at the top of the yarn mast will need adjusting for the thread . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To secure backing for the budget from the Radical Liberals , the Centre Democrats and the Christian People 's Party , he was obliged to abandon plans to reduce direct taxes ( although corporation tax was reduced ) . |
| 20 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 21 | Thanking everyone , Mr. Offer said he had enjoyed working for the parish council , the clubs and with two chairmen of the recreation committee , Wing Commander Archie Derry and Mr. Coyte . |
| 22 | At Kensington Palace and Highgrove the couple entertained little , so rarely in fact that their butler Allan Fisher described working for the Wales 's as ‘ boring ’ . |
| 23 | let them live it , do n't want saving for the children , no , they do n't want nothing |
| 24 | All it needed was someone to go looking for the jack , find their hands curling round them and start asking why … |
| 25 | Thereafter he received an annual salary of twenty pounds a year each year down to 1262 and can be traced acting for the king in litigation until 1267 . |
| 26 | We 've made applying for the Income & Growth PEP as easy as possible , because the sooner you invest the sooner you will start to benefit from a professionally managed investment portfolio and your tax-free returns . |
| 27 | One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon . |
| 28 | And that 's our money for the day used up , if you count paying for the room . |
| 29 | To choose suffering for the sake of the stimulating effects of running away from it is indeed a paradox . |
| 30 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |