Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 2 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 3 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 4 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 5 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 6 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 7 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 8 | Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes . |
| 9 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 10 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 11 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 12 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 13 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 14 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 15 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 16 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 17 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 18 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 19 | It was an hour before he was discovered missing and we spent the rest of the afternoon searching for him in the woods and plains surrounding the house . |
| 20 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 21 | As a result , a patient can relate to one group of staff during the waking hours , and knows that the same staff will be caring for him during the night period . |
| 22 | Our motoring culture has a price all too evident to the police investigating car crime , to the victims of road accidents , and the nurses caring for them to the one in seven children suffering from asthma and the environment , as more and more areas of the countryside are carved up to make way for roads . |
| 23 | Paul speaks of suing for it before the praetor fideicommissarius . |
| 24 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 25 | Well they 're actually paying for it on the erm |
| 26 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 27 | Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment . |
| 28 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 29 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 30 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |