Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major purveyor of Tory gossip and still looking for a job . |
| 2 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 3 | The children in groups of two , three or four , tackled an experiment of mixing hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide and then testing for the result and boiling the outcome to see what was left . |
| 4 | Well I , I 'm having some difficulty in keeping my remarks addressed to question A and not drifting into question B because obviously Leeds City Council and perhaps speaking for the rest of West Yorkshire 's concerned about regeneration effects . |
| 5 | Companies such as Home Care and Nursing Services , Care Concern and Care Services provide home helps , nursing auxiliaries and care attendants , meals cooked in the home and home nursing for the terminally ill . |
| 6 | Part location is improved as the spatial data recorded in HERMS can be used to find parts by : I ) specifying a position in an assembly and an enclosing search field , 2 ) specifying the maximum volume of the part expressed in extents values ( XYZ ) , 3 ) similar to 2 but by delivering a ratio between two orthogonal extents values , ie slenderness ratio , 4 ) by choosing a known part and then checking for all parts that have a specified class of interference ( or separation ) with the named part , and 5 ) combinations of I — 4 . |
| 7 | Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape . |
| 8 | So deep was the division on the " entrist tactic " that the unified body reached the compromise of working within the Labour Party for a period and then withdrawing for a time and continuing independent activity . |
| 9 | Cos there they had a stark choice then of voting for erm a very low community charge and potentially voting for a very high community charge . |
| 10 | A further small group of species prefer to live , male and female , in pairs , the bonding occurring on sexual maturity and normally extending for the life span of the individuals . |
| 11 | On receipt of the returned summons you or your agent must now complete the service copy of the summons by putting in the return day and calling day and then arranging for it to be served on your debtor . |
| 12 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 13 | Our campaigns include saving the rainforests , securing better protection for Britain 's countryside and recently pressing for a ban on the ivory trade to save the elephant . |
| 14 | It was his attitude towards Dawn , treating her with such compassion and even apologising for her . |
| 15 | ‘ How can you respect bashing in a bolt and just waiting for a robot to take over your job ? |
| 16 | He 's very conscious of the fact that he 's indebted to him , not just for rescuing him from those awful guardians but for getting him into Grafton Abbey and then arranging for him to work for Mr Harvey . |
| 17 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 18 | Penetrate a fairly gruff exterior , and you will find Dave Musgrove , at one time Seve Ballesteros ' right-hand man and now caddying for Sandy Lyle , an affable philosopher , who will trot out an occasional quotation , from Shakespeare to Dylan . |
| 19 | But to have him sitting beside him , looking his followers over in silence and courteously waiting for someone else to speak first — this was a situation beyond Hazel 's experience . |
| 20 | I found it difficult to follow their chatter ( you know old Shallot , nosy as hell and always looking for mischief ) , but they seemed most concerned about Lady Francesca 's health . |
| 21 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
| 22 | A predominance of occupational unions leads to highly fragmented unionism and ideological and religious divisions also make for duplication of union organisation , thereby weakening bargaining potential and often making for difficulties in promoting effective representation of workers in individual establishments . |
| 23 | Mr Guest has been extremely helpful , first sending an inspector out to review the situation and then arranging for the 6.45am bus from Crook to Bishop Auckland to be rescheduled to arrive in Crook five minutes earlier . |
| 24 | Ciaran Barr , Ulster 's first hurling Allstar and now playing for Dublin , will be among those in action . |
| 25 | He was into his stride early in the session , dipping under world champion Ayrton Senna 's record pole time set last year and finally settling for a best lap of 1min 15.703sec , at an average speed of 127.799mph . |
| 26 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
| 27 | The Supreme Council , returning from its Easter recess on April 17 , passed on April 18 a resolution reaffirming the March 11 independence declaration and again calling for negotiations , but offering to refrain from passing any new laws until after May 1 to allow for preliminary consultations . |
| 28 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 29 | It was much more the sheer vitality and range of committed ability , lay and clerical , present in the Church at that time and just waiting for a new lead . |
| 30 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |