Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 2 | The principal method is the study of hoards , since coins have frequently been deposited in hoards for safe-keeping and their owners have often been prevented from recovering them for a variety of reasons such as death or forgetfulness . |
| 3 | If you have gas or coal fires , and can avoid using them for a while , it would be a useful addition to this list . |
| 4 | The seller has no difficulty in producing them for the buyer in any quantity provided he has sufficient notice to schedule production , and purchase needed materials and components . |
| 5 | Photographing them for an interval gives portions of particle paths , which , if short enough , can be used to synthesize a streamline pattern even in unsteady flow ( e.g. Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 6 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 7 | she , keeps checking me for the thyroid as well now , every time I go and the tablets are all going haywire , she takes a blood test , a blood thing you know , your pulse every time I go |
| 8 | One of the brigade 's proudest possessions is a letter from King George V , thanking them for the part they played in saving the Royal Train during the disastrous fire in the Works in 1933 , when £30,000 worth of damage was caused . |
| 9 | Last week , I received a touching postcard from a recently divorced friend in Bonn thanking me for a letter . |
| 10 | Thanking someone for a compliment |
| 11 | Should n't I be compensating someone for the loss of the Seren ? ’ |
| 12 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 13 | For example : I 'm sorry to keep pressing you for an answer but we do need to make a decision if we are to avoid being the last in the market with this product : Is it to be A or B ? ’ |
| 14 | Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book . |
| 15 | And I think that is the message which I want to get over to you , because if you can find that way to tread that difficult line which is there in our society which is over-protective , over-secretive , which is concerned about not not letting people unless they 're of a certain rank , level or certain job , speak out publicly unless you can break through it I think you 're actually , first of all , denying something for yourselves , and that you 're denying something for the public at large . |
| 16 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 17 | She had butterflies inside , nerving herself for the questions she was about to ask . |
| 18 | If Duke Egeus did not ask Hermia to choose between Demetrius and life in a nunnery in Act 1 , there would be no point pressing her for an answer four acts later . |
| 19 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 20 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 21 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 22 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |
| 23 | She returned Myra 's greeting , thanking her for the card . |
| 24 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 25 | Common Law could not prevent the trustee employing it for the wife 's benefit , and Equity would compel him to do so . |
| 26 | We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’ |
| 27 | Persuaded by his own musical studies of the need to educate rather than indoctrinate church musicians , he extended the aims of the College of Church Music , incorporating it for the purpose in 1875 ‘ by special licence under Act of Parliament ’ as Trinity College , London . |
| 28 | The first people to leave went off hastily , while others lingered , girding themselves for the streets . |
| 29 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 30 | Fencing for Nursery Playgroup A letter has been received from the playgroup thanking us for the provision of the fence . |