Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 2 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 3 | He died last week when his parachute failed to open while filming for the BBC series 999 near Alnwick , Northumberland . |
| 4 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 5 | I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15 . |
| 6 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 7 | We encountered this view at the beginning of this book , in the dialogues of Plato , where we found talk of ‘ the ascent to see the things in the upper world [ which ] you may take as standing for the upward journey into the region of the intelligible ’ . |
| 8 | Having eaten two packets of bacon-flavoured potato crisps , he had purchased another tube of Rowntree 's Fruit Gums , which he was now enjoying while waiting for the lights to dim . |
| 9 | My knowledge of chyluria progressed while working for the senior physician of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases . |
| 10 | It was lunchtime so I bought a packet of Jaffa Cakes and more lager , which I drank while waiting for the ferry to start boarding . |
| 11 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |