Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's now about bringing everyone together for the good of British rugby , ’ said the Scot . |
| 2 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 3 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 4 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
| 5 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 6 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 7 | For him it would simply have been a matter of bringing the girl along , telling my mother she was coming with them and paying her handsomely for the hardship occasioned . ’ |
| 8 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 9 | I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself . |
| 10 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 11 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 12 | You are also preparing them well for the time when they will be outside your jurisdiction for ever . |
| 13 | He looked at Mitch , studying him closely for the first time . |
| 14 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 15 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 16 | Until that moment they were reconciled to leaving him behind for the proposed four-week tour . |
| 17 | We would increase the public sector borrowing requirement for the first two years before reducing it sharply for the rest of our term of office to balance the books over five years . |