Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we got there I drove round and round for hours looking for the hotel , ’ Markus said . |
| 2 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 3 | Those sentenced for espionage included three people arrested in March 1989 and sentenced on Feb. 15 , 1990 , for computer hacking for the Soviet KGB . |
| 4 | The Council of Ministers on Jan. 24 also approved a 300,000 million ptas investment plan for Asturias providing for the creation of 1,800 new jobs over the next six years with special regard to the mining sector . |
| 5 | She had spent the day nonstop before and after work preparing for the weekend . |
| 6 | Twelve Zekes were used as window dressing for the Akagi scenes . |
| 7 | Do you remember looking over the ship 's side at the flying fish , and the phosphorus gleaming along the side of the ship at night — and of course looking for the Southern Cross in the stars at night ? |
| 8 | They will usually have to charge for these , but you may be reimbursed if you subsequently register with the agency or fulfil a certain number of hours working for the agency . |
| 9 | In October the Hamoaze was filled with ships bearing the first contingent of Canadians heading for the front . |
| 10 | The papers of counsel acting for the plaintiffs in a pending action in the Commercial Court were mistakenly sent to the solicitors for the other side . |
| 11 | One of the biggest potential costs is the building of under-road ducting for the speed sensors . |
| 12 | It is with regret that we join the chorus of voices calling for the resignation of Jocelyn Stevens as chairman of Britain 's architectural and archaeological conservation body , English Heritage : any man so free of mealy-mouthed PR awareness as to tell a bothersome journalist to ‘ go and pee out of the window ’ is a true blue . |
| 13 | From it , as she passed , came the companionable muted clucking of hens settling for the night . |
| 14 | The columns of MLs were now under heavy fire , the port group of MLs making for the Mole to land their commandos , the starboard group intending to slip under the stern of Campbeltown into the Old Entrance . |
| 15 | The key question was whether , in practice , the numbers of candidates enrolling for the new system would live up to the high expectations . |
| 16 | On May 6 thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Lomé calling for the resignation of President Gnassingbe Eyadema and Prime Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , who , they claimed , were " accomplices " in the attack . |
| 17 | ‘ Indeed , there is an increasing number of countries competing for the limited funds available for re-investment and will be glad to welcome new entrants . |
| 18 | Well , at last some good news on the jobs front , with the number of people out of work falling for the second month running . |
| 19 | Over the porch was a wooden pointed hood with scalloped edges , to keep off the rain , presumably from the heads of visitors waiting for the door to be opened . |
| 20 | I made tea for him as he worked , watching a vee of geese heading for the interior as the kettle boiled . |
| 21 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 22 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 23 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 24 | The following example program segment reads through a list of names looking for the name in " name$ . |
| 25 | Demonstrations resumed in University Square on the evening of Aug. 22 when protesters staged a six-hour occupation , chanting anti-government slogans and complaints about food shortages ( especially the reintroduction earlier that day of sugar rationing for the first time since the December 1989 revolution ) . |
| 26 | It also includes the work of such luminaries as Quentin Blake , who made the selection and penned the fine Box of Delights drawing for the poster . |
| 27 | If we get the right balance and range of people working for the BBC it will change and broaden the agenda of our programmes . |
| 28 | Maths tuition can be tailored to the needs of people budgeting for the family groceries , learning to measure and switching over to metrication or simply those wanting to be able to help their children with maths homework . |
| 29 | To her surprise the small room of the post office was full of people waiting for the evening mail . |
| 30 | I looked out of the window and I saw a queue of people waiting for the bus … and so on . |