Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanking someone for a compliment |
| 2 | Should n't I be compensating someone for the loss of the Seren ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 5 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’ |
| 7 | And it 's possible that the curious telephone conversation in the flat , with its reference to postponing something for a week , related to your time limit . |
| 8 | Around half a mile away was the small Hertfordshire town of Tring with shops and bakeries providing everything for a canal side picnic . |
| 9 | And getting a permit for a waste-to-energy plant is every bit as difficult as getting one for a landfill in most places . |
| 10 | Such was the message Lewis passed on , himself saying nothing for the moment of his own extraordinarily exciting find , but agreeing to pick up Morse in about ten minutes ' time , after briefly reporting in to St Aldate 's . |
| 11 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 12 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 13 | Sometimes you feel a bit stupid asking someone for a hand . |
| 14 | Now , he wanted Terry to tell the US government to start doing something for the hostages . |
| 15 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 16 | Saddam has never been known for doing something for the benefit of others . |
| 17 | Mark 's doing something for the Prog . |
| 18 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 19 | Wrap a candle in the end of each tentacle , leaving one for the cane , if preferred . |
| 20 | Wages are a major component of costs for any individual capitalist and are the dominating one for the system as a whole . |
| 21 | He had n't concentrated on one thing for years now as he had when he 'd started collecting stamps at the age of nine , so careful , so worried , so never leaving anything for a minute that could be done straight away by him . |
| 22 | It is not just a question of exchanging one for the other . |