Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thunder was continuous and the heavens opened up so , nowhere to go , we were huddled in the tent waiting for the river to rise . |
| 2 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 3 | You should also review the case looking for the more individual features in it . |
| 4 | People making decisions for you at that level , but the point I 'm trying to make is our society 's much more complicated and much more sophisticated now in the way that arrangements are made , the decision making for the community . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) If you know who they are , write to the conveyancers for the seller or buyer , as the case may be , confirming that you are acting for your client , and if your client is the buyer asking for the draft contract documentation , or if you act for the seller , either sending or promising to send the draft agreement for sale . |
| 6 | I stood in the kitchen waiting for the water to heat up with a distinct feeling of eco-smugness . |
| 7 | Several hundred coolies were surging round the building baying for the blood of the overseers inside . |
| 8 | To the psychologist searching for the determinants of personality this sort of outcome is disappointing ; to the parent , on the other hand , it should be good news . |
| 9 | The practitioner acting for the husband should consider the tax effect of any transfer of the matrimonial home , or interest therein , to the other party to the marriage , and upon whom the burden of any taxation is to fall . |
| 10 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |
| 11 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 12 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 13 | Rory smiled , looked once more at Lewis 's retreating back , then started down the far side of the dune heading for the narrow road . |
| 14 | The Sheikh had crossed them by camel as a boy ; then as a young man with a wife and small children , including the boy at my side , he had camped overnight on one side of the range waiting for the engines of his jeeps to cool before grinding inch by inch , around and over . |
| 15 | The residents have presented a petition to the council calling for the plans to be shelved until an alternative access to the site can be found . |
| 16 | Fortunately , Settis is known to be a good friend of the Museum 's director John Walsh , and is a member of the committee planning for the future of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu after the new museum opens at the Getty Center in west Los Angeles . |
| 17 | The functional association of two domains can then be interpreted through a hierarchical search extending down from the initial checking for the intersection of geometric domains , through an entity or edge condition check , into that for the relationships of the sub-surfaces contained within the spatial intersection . |
| 18 | We had such happy family holidays in the drizzle waiting for the sun to try and come out that it seemed churlish to spoil things with science . |
| 19 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 20 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
| 21 | Later I was wakened by someone else in the room fumbling for the light switch . |
| 22 | From across the open stretch of ground hemmed in by the watercourse and the thicket , from at least half a mile away , I can clearly hear the engang preparing for the damburst of cattle . |
| 23 | Under contract from the Business Jets Division of Pan Am , Little Rock Airmotive in Arkansas converted a Standard Falcon into a specialised cargo aircraft , the prototype flying for the first time on 28 Mar 72 . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |
| 25 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 26 | Norman has the adrenalin flowing for the Masters , and is confident he will improve on his last two visits , when he missed the cut both times . |
| 27 | My stomach turned over as I watched the ball heading for the out-of-bounds , but to my relief it looked as though it had stayed in , even if it seemed in an awful spot . |
| 28 | ‘ Our Alton depot will get the ball rolling for the National Spring Clean , ’ said United Carriers manager Michael Howe . |
| 29 | Striders fielded an impressive all international line-up which , in spite of the absence of track ace Davy Wilson , racing in America , ADD01 simply left the rest fighting for the runner-up positions . |
| 30 | On 27 May 1685 , only a week after Parliament had convened , a grand committee of the House of the Commons ( comprising some 330 members ) agreed to address the King calling for the enforcement of the laws against " all Dissenters whatsoever from the Church of England " , including Catholics . |