Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scenery was very spectacular — outside the Veni valley , inside of the French girls in my dormitory undressing for bed ! |
| 2 | I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees . |
| 3 | But with everyone listening intently , there followed what seemed like hours of scrabbling around with my paper looking for page two . |
| 4 | I remember an occasion , some years ago , when the front door bell rang here and I opened the door and it was my secretary coming for work in the morning . |
| 5 | I was huddling over my pan looking for gold , ’ said Horne . |
| 6 | Even indifferent lawyers may be kept going by their clerk arranging for briefs to be passed to them from dud solicitors . |
| 7 | Listening to her debut recording for Decca , it is difficult to disagree . |
| 8 | He raised the chopper again , but his mother threw herself upon their tormentor screaming for help . |
| 9 | Pigs normally spend a large amount of their day searching for food and consuming food , and pigs which have no food for a long period often exhibit sham-chewing . |
| 10 | Might this type have been a symbol of the League : Penelope or Electra awaiting their deliverer standing for Hell as ( or Ionia ) in bonds ? |
| 11 | Er , my friend got a house at Westerhailes Park eleven months ago and er it was alright at the beginning , then she started getting hassle , from the kids coming to her door asking for cigarettes and she did n't give them them , and they were banging on her door , tapping on her windows and everything . |
| 12 | The NCCED and the other organisations listed on pages 145–7 offer support and counselling for a woman who has spent the whole of her life caring for parents or a relative who has died . |
| 13 | A WOMAN who has spent her life caring for others was herself the centre of attention at the weekend . |
| 14 | I felt her hand rooting for mine in the pocket of my jacket . |
| 15 | ‘ Wo n't even look at 'er new battleaxe , ’ grumbled Ginger as they went on their way looking for money . |
| 16 | Industry statistics have shown that engineers can waste 40% of their time searching for information , and it is this problem that VirtualStation addresses . |
| 17 | Thus a modern Inuit village family may live in a small settlement of insulated timber housing , spend part of their time working for wages in government or private company employ , hunt caribou or seals for meat , and tend traplines for extra money to buy consumer goods from the store or mail-order catalogue . |
| 18 | The parties accepted that the court was entitled to decide matters of construction because , as well as the clause in their agreement providing for expert determination , there was also a clause which said that the agreement was to be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and that the parties submitted to the jurisdiction of the High Court . |
| 19 | Maybe , then , it was stubborn pride that was making her stay waiting for Moira Russell to telephone again . |
| 20 | He had another go at persuasion and wrote Adam long letters to his college begging for compromises . |
| 21 | ‘ You could be dead and you will certainly never play rugby again , ’ was one doctor 's diagnosis after Lumsden had broken his neck playing for Bath . |
| 22 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 23 | He clutched at a rail and held on , heart thumping , the blood pounding in his ears , his mind wailing for mercy . |
| 24 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 25 | It was the story of a Frenchman , who had spent his life searching for beauty and pleasure — pleasure of all kinds , both good and bad . |
| 26 | ‘ I understand , ’ said Snizort , who had lived in a world where entire civilisations had been lost and who had spent his life searching for fragments of them . |
| 27 | And in any case , if he recovered he 'd spend his life looking for Vecchi , if that party had muscled in on the black . |
| 28 | David Carlson did n't really like his daughter staying for hours at the Davis 's . |
| 29 | The Rev Bill Harper has championed the cause of the 260 pensioners involved , but is disappointed that the Prime Minister has not replied to his letter pleading for help . |
| 30 | ‘ I told my mother I 'd take you and I will , ’ he declared , his tone aiming for civility , yet laced with impatience . |