Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember looking over the ship 's side at the flying fish , and the phosphorus gleaming along the side of the ship at night — and of course looking for the Southern Cross in the stars at night ? |
| 2 | The papers of counsel acting for the plaintiffs in a pending action in the Commercial Court were mistakenly sent to the solicitors for the other side . |
| 3 | One of the biggest potential costs is the building of under-road ducting for the speed sensors . |
| 4 | They got it when Inzamam was short of speed returning for a second run , and Malcolm 's throw from third man was slickly relayed by Russell to the bowler 's end . |
| 5 | It 's a lot of work playing for a concert . |
| 6 | Well , at last some good news on the jobs front , with the number of people out of work falling for the second month running . |
| 7 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 8 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 9 | In May 1967 the mayor ridiculed a Nationalist proposal to submit a draft memorial to the Ministry of Development asking for an extension . |
| 10 | Demonstrations resumed in University Square on the evening of Aug. 22 when protesters staged a six-hour occupation , chanting anti-government slogans and complaints about food shortages ( especially the reintroduction earlier that day of sugar rationing for the first time since the December 1989 revolution ) . |
| 11 | The win by Peter Crispe and navigator Tony Poole was an exceptionally popular one , the pair having been stalwarts of air racing for a long time . |
| 12 | Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ? |
| 13 | She realised he must be going through some kind of hell waiting for the rime when he could let all his suppressed urges out . |
| 14 | Officials from the leading Ulster team have voiced their opinion in the past that there should be some of form seeding for the preliminary round , and now it has raised its head again as they prepare for a long trip south on November 6 . |
| 15 | To add to this demoralising sense of isolation , the tenacious curtain of smoke from the bombardment meant that the front line frequently could not see the supporting troops behind ; nor , worse still , could their rockets of supplication asking for the artillery to bring down a barrage , or cease shelling their own positions , be seen at the rear . |
| 16 | They both laughed , and Juliet felt a bond of affection growing for the other girl . |
| 17 | Whole rooms of the Turk 's Head were taken over by bits of fairground waiting for the revival that would send Uncle Titch and Grandad chortling off to the local branch of the Co-op . |
| 18 | That is the first rung on the ladder of karate learning for the black belt . |
| 19 | The ideology of family planning for the lesser developed countries , plus the formidable apparatus to diffuse it to world leaders was ready , and was translated into American and later multilateral aid for India to set up a nationwide family planning service . |
| 20 | We have been told that it would be a waste of time applying for a permit for any other foreign rider . |