Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , via a university revue at the Edinburgh Festival , he met Terry Jones and began co-writing with him for The Frost Report . |
| 2 | Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms . |
| 3 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 4 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 5 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 7 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 8 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 9 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 10 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 11 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 12 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 13 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 15 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 16 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 17 | I 've got my er seventeen year old granddaughter staying with me for the time being |
| 18 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 19 | Naturally he would assume that Richard was staying with her for the weekend . |
| 20 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 21 | Comrade Wu , our guide who is coming with us for the rest of the tour , is teaching us some Chinese in the evenings , and we are trying out some new phrases every day and causing them some amusement . |
| 22 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 23 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 24 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 25 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 26 | She knew that this would be a black cloud hanging over her for the rest of her working life . |
| 27 | But with fighter pilots depending on them for the fuel to get home with , the tanker crews say they have a feeling their friends will look after them . |
| 28 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 29 | We had sergeants and inspectors jumping on us for the least little thing and very often trying to get us into trouble , whereas young fellows learning the job , what we needed was assistance . |
| 30 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |