Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 2 | Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead . |
| 3 | Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things . |
| 4 | Trotting after her , Frankie automatically rubbed his hand on his trousers before daring to reach for the gloved hand she offered . |
| 5 | He was asked at the Dec. 30 meeting to continue for the two months while new structures were elaborated . |
| 6 | This would include a sum , if necessary , for any board and lodging provided for the substitute housekeeper . |
| 7 | They only will stand for the same , I do n't think they 're going to stand for the same conditions |
| 8 | So , what we 're going to do for the next four months is look at the anatomy of a PC . |
| 9 | These two alternatives can be investigated quite simply by setting the pull-out torque expression ( 5.14 ) to zero and attempting to solve for the angular frequency , W : and therefore : where H = R/V is a constant for the motor . |
| 10 | They were n't going to settle for the one goal . |
| 11 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 12 | There are areas , one or two of which I will go on to elude to , which I still think are actually going to make for the greatest savings in the coming financial year and thereafter . |
| 13 | When we left at 11.20 am the forecourt would be crowded with another congregation waiting to enter for the 11.30 am Celebration of the Sung Eucharist . |
| 14 | I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone . |
| 15 | for those wishing to study for the professional diploma on a full-time programme . |
| 16 | The train was beginning to slow for the next station . |
| 17 | The methods described so far are suitable for popular waters where it is a case of choosing a swim and staying put for the whole session , which means you must attract fish into your swim and induce them to feed . |
| 18 | For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market . |
| 19 | Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond . |
| 20 | Britain is failing to invest for the long term . |
| 21 | Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives . |
| 22 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 23 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 24 | The news comes as BA is still licking its wounds from having to apologise for the dirty tricks campaign conducted against its smaller rival , Virgin Atlantic , and the early retiral of its former chairman , Lord King . |
| 25 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |
| 26 | Should we not be suspicious of postmodern critiques of the ‘ subject ’ when they surface at a historical moment when many subjugated people feel themselves coming to voice for the first time … . |
| 27 | Over 50 per cent of the population of many US cities are now ethnic ‘ majorities ’ — the whites having left for the outer suburban areas . |
| 28 | Having worked for the influential retailer Woodhouse since it opened in 1975 , Guy Tolson is well-placed to analyse the ebb and flow of trends in fashionable menswear . |
| 29 | He fought back the word ‘ sorry ’ , which was threatening to erupt for the third time . |
| 30 | It is no wonder that Ministers do not understand the problems local government faces in having to prepare for the final year of poll tax , in having to work out how to collect the current year 's poll tax , in having to prepare the software for collection of the council tax . |