Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He further asserts that during the nineteenth century litigants did not understand the way courts worked and were in awe of their proceedings , and that the intermediaries between litigants and justice , lawyers , court officials and petition-drawers , had little sympathy with or understanding for the average Sri Lankan . |
| 2 | For trimming , allow enough braid to go round the pelmet outline , or fringing for the bottom line of pelmet only . |
| 3 | The alternatives are letter , fax , or looking for the British agent in the ads . |
| 4 | If you would like to join the committee and influence policy , pass on a good idea , attend the community lunch held for those working in the area , get involved in producing the regular Headington Area Newsletter , join an informal discussion group or borrow material on Health , Parenting or Caring for the Elderly , make a special request or offer your services as a tutor or Youth Club volunteer , we would love to hear from you . |
| 5 | Most species will form groups at some stage of their life , for feeding , defence , or caring for the young , for example . |
| 6 | The attempt here is to highlight the inadequacy of the present legal approach where it is assumed that selling on credit , or leasing for the useful life of the equipment is not lending , and that reservation of title on sale does not constitute the creation of a security interest but is merely an agreement as to the time at which the property should pass to the buyer . |
| 7 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 8 | But being in a wheelchair does n't stop them having fun — or falling for the leading man . |
| 9 | Once it has occurred , the analyst connects the feature in question with his impression of or feeling for the whole work , and may be led to modify this as a result . |
| 10 | In deaf clubs and institutes throughout the country , there was also much fund-raising and knitting for the armed services . |
| 11 | She 's had a hectic Christmas — one long round of shopping , cleaning and cooking for the entire family , including Malc 's brother and his wife and his mother , who has become confused and forgetful since Dad 's death and Lynda has taken care of her with selfless dedication . |
| 12 | As a generalisation it is fairly easy to select a number of easy to keep hardy fish while many invertebrates especially coelenterates ( corals and anemones ) are more difficult and demanding for the inexperienced . |
| 13 | But the complication involved in writing the program and allowing for the high number of physical variables made it impracticable at that time . |
| 14 | But it 's the fact that the guy gave erm , my friend Billy , erm , died a few years ago , erm , but they , they were like best mates and they used to ju just encourage each other to like , jump on a train and come up to London , and start going in all the hospitals and praying for the sick and things like that . |
| 15 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |
| 16 | SFA lists certain criteria to be used to judge relevant experience and understanding for the particular transaction . |
| 17 | He also spoke of lying awake and listening for the flying bombs , and noting the difference in volume between one explosion and another , and then , on hearing one more definite in sound , concluding that , as in the old artillery box-barrage , they had at last ‘ got the range ’ . |
| 18 | And sinking for the sheer novelty |
| 19 | For my own part , I enjoyed reading the old Punch and writing for the new one . |
| 20 | Or maybe it was like the ball in a roulette wheel , bouncing around and looking for the right number … |
| 21 | SHORT , SWEET AND RELAXING For the busy professional , weekend breaks may be more feasible than longer holidays . |
| 22 | Dad 's Army and waiting for the final push — ( l-r ) Hill , Teague ( obscured ) , Winterbottom , Dooley , Probyn and Ackford ( the only one to have retired so far ) . |
| 23 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 24 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 25 | It felt rather like laying herself in front of an approaching juggernaut and waiting for the inevitable annihilation to follow … |
| 26 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 27 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 28 | It was the people that were being drawn by the nose and paying for the whole thing . |
| 29 | And going for the big one … the Dark Blues in their toughest training yet . |
| 30 | Diane Jackson was already on her way past him , and heading for the wide stairway . |