Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 2 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 3 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 4 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 5 | Often the counsellor of ageing people will experience this when , after talking with them for a short period , many of the pressures and worries appear to be visibly lifted from their shoulders . |
| 6 | After talking to her for a while I asked her if she was English . |
| 7 | After crouching by it for several minutes , sifting through the contents , he uttered a triumphant ‘ Aha ! ’ and pulled out a large framed photograph , from which he blew a cloud of dust before placing it on the desk and inviting Harry to look at it . |
| 8 | A piece of rope was tied to it but the knot was difficult to undo and , after fiddling with it for what felt like hours , he still could n't pry it loose . |
| 9 | When we received it we thought it was great , but after chewing on them for a while , mum got a bit worried as the pieces we were chewing off looked like hard plastic . |
| 10 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 11 | Walter is backed up by Graham Nicholson , who takes over in July after working with him for 18 months . |
| 12 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 13 | ‘ He 'll stop people from picking on him for being different . ’ |
| 14 | The pressures on the CNAA as colleges showed interest in coming to it for validation were of various kinds . |
| 15 | You must tackle a warren as though you intend to do a good job at it ; there 's precious little point or pleasure in dabbling with it for that way you achieve very little . |
| 16 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 17 | Control of the party passed to a new generation — the third Earl of Sunderland ( the most experienced , but somewhat erratic ) , James Stanhope , Charles Viscount Townshend , and Sir Robert Walpole — who soon fell to competing amongst themselves for political dominance . |
| 18 | Last time Roger was outside waiting for me for an hour and a half |
| 19 | Our best wishes go to John and his family and we look forward to working with him for another 15 year . |
| 20 | So I wish you and your family a particularly enjoyable festive season and look forward to working with you for a successful 1993 and making it a year that will bring real growth . |
| 21 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , he can atone for his sins by waiting on you for a few days , ’ Jack said laughingly . |
| 23 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |