Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 2 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 3 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 4 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not suppose , however , that you will be applying for the position so I shall wait for Alain to send a few people here for me to see . |
| 6 | Euro competition chief Sir Leon Brittan has been pushing for the guide since a survey found British cars were an average 59 per cent dearer than the cheapest Continental prices . |
| 7 | He will come round the wicket to start probing the rib cage and looking for the catch as the batsman tries to fend off the ball . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 9 | Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict . |
| 10 | His wife is searching for the book because Ward told her he had it . |
| 11 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 12 | George : ‘ You would n't have been born and writing for THE FACE if it was n't for someone spunking off . ’ |
| 13 | Only the last-minute availability of Donny Davies , his soccer senior and a formidable broadcaster , writing for the paper as ‘ Old International ’ , saved Arlott from the broken Elizabethan and the Manchester United catastrophe on Munich 's wintry runway . |
| 14 | Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living . |
| 15 | This includes any local authority which is providing accommodation for a child at the time an application is made and anyone caring for the child when proceedings are commenced . |
| 16 | Readers can check this result by subtracting Project C's cash flows from Project D's cash flows and solving for the IRR as outlined in the previous paragraph . |
| 17 | She was heading for the supermercado when a flaxen-haired man with a teak-dark tan waved vigorously from beyond a group of onlookers on the opposite side of the square . |
| 18 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 19 | ‘ Help him , ’ said Isabel , heading for the door before Ellen had her gown properly fastened . |
| 20 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 21 | After testing for the role when he executive-produced We 're No Angels , he has taken it up full time , setting up his own company Tribeca Productions and building his own mini-studio in New York . |
| 22 | so we start paying for the mortgage when the contracts are exchanged ? |
| 23 | ‘ This is a billion pound bruising for the motorist as today 's Budget will bring the Chancellor more than that figure in general revenue . ’ |
| 24 | He talks about people going for the trolley when the smoke comes out of a house . |
| 25 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 26 | As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it . |
| 27 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 28 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |
| 29 | With this statement , Roebuck was answering a question about his defence and , in particular , an unforgettable head-on tackle he effected when the All Black 's runaway rhino , no.8 Wayne Shelford , was huffing , puffing and snorting for the tryline when North Harbour played New South Wales just under 12 months ago . |
| 30 | Her hand was already reaching for the telephone when a large shape loomed in what now became recognisable as a doorway . |