Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no football to relieve his loss , Billy took it hard and , on Tuesday 26 July 1932 , the day after the team had reported for trailing for the new season , he was found dead in one of the dressing rooms . |
| 2 | CHEERING crowds greeted Jack Lammiman and his crew when they sailed home to Whitby , North Yorks , after following Columbus 's route to America — where they were rescued after drifting for a month with engine failure . |
| 3 | So the institutions are being dragooned into subscribing for a package of shares in all 10 companies . |
| 4 | Composers of new hymn tunes should be discouraged from writing for a traditional text which is either wedded to a well-loved tune or has more than one good tune to which it may be sung . |
| 5 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 6 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 7 | ANARAP is also committed to campaigning for a better legal environment for community radios . |
| 8 | Trade union leader Bakary Karambo and lawyer and leading human rights activist Demba Diallo , responded by calling for an immediate , indefinite general strike until the UDPN gave up power . |
| 9 | The Hungarian government responded by calling for an emergency meeting of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , and announcing its intention to submit a complaint to the International Court of Justice . |
| 10 | On Oct. 9 , demonstrators responded by calling for the resignation of Crimea 's authorities and cancellation of the new resolution . |
| 11 | The same sort of approaches were adopted for cycling for the same reasons . |
| 12 | The structure plan can not be seen for providing for a major or sudden change in direction . |
| 13 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 14 | Mr Waite , formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury 's envoy , had been trying to secure the release of Western hostages when he was himself captured because he was suspected of spying for the Americans . |
| 15 | The State Department announced on Feb. 7 that Felix Bloch , a US diplomat suspected of spying for the Soviet Union , had been informed that he was being suspended without pay with immediate effect . |
| 16 | Britain and Hong Kong have apparently decided against waiting for the Steering Committee of the UN Conference on Indo-Chinese refugees to meet on January 18 before reviewing the situation . |
| 17 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 18 | Three years later , another new ‘ Bluebird ’ was prevented from going for the record by floods at Lake Eyre , Australia , a delay which brought much criticism of Campbell from his backers , led by Sir Alfred Owen . |
| 19 | Despite denials that efforts to block challenges to Bush were being co-ordinated from either the White House or the Republican Party 's national leadership , Duke threatened to contest the presidential election as a third party candidate if he was prevented from campaigning for the Republican nomination . |
| 20 | We might argue , albeit anachronistically , that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge . |
| 21 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 22 | There are two approaches which can be adopted to charging for the service : |
| 23 | Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training . |
| 24 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 25 | The objective is to make sure that the needs of individual students can be met by arranging for the research to be directed by experienced members of staff actively interested in the chosen topic who will be the supervisors . |
| 26 | She has also considered re-training and thought about enrolling for a college course . |
| 27 | He was accused of calling for the violent overthrow of the monarchy . |
| 28 | They are being held hostage with three other peacekeeping officials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government . |
| 29 | Relations between Egypt and Israel , already strained by differences over the Middle East peace process , deteriorated further after the arrest of four Israeli citizens accused of spying for the Jewish state in the first such case since the signing of the Camp David peace accords between the two countries in 1978 [ see pp. 29654-60 ] . |
| 30 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |