Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHE sat on the park bench waiting for Richard , her head turned to look towards the main gate . |
| 2 | An article will be published in the C.B News asking for assistance , not necessarily on a full time , regular basis . |
| 3 | City 's goals tally is the lowest among the six clubs in the elite group scrapping for the title . |
| 4 | from the Personnel department asking for details of what I was offering because the medical reports had now gone to the medical officer . |
| 5 | Darlington Council must decide by mid-March which of the building companies bidding for the contract to repair the town 's Dolphin Centre will do the work . |
| 6 | As a result of this a full-time Keeper was appointed and in 1969 the University Grants Committee financed the Collection 's move to new premises as part of the refurbishment of the VanDyck Printers Building for the Drama Department . |
| 7 | Originally the scheme allowed for pensions to be calculated on the best twenty years of earnings , which at least went some way towards enabling women , who spend some rime out of the labour market caring for dependants , to maximize their future pension . |
| 8 | The expression on Hurley 's face when George told him the news was reward enough in itself , but there was an altogether different reaction from the DIA when Coleman reported in about El-Jorr and his key role as the DEA CI fronting for Eurame . |
| 9 | Rallies had been held repeatedly since March 26 in Dushanbe , the capital , organized by the opposition parties calling for the resignation of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Sarafali Kenjayev . |
| 10 | They arrived in Liverpool after an uneventful railway journey and for the second time in three months Cam walked along the dock wall looking for the Langdale ; but now there was confidence in his stride and eagerness in his face . |
| 11 | Strabane scored 212 — the Gillespie brothers accounting for 149 of the runs and for good measure Mark ( 64 not out ) was voted man of the match . |
| 12 | I represent the African National Congress , the vanguard movement fighting for the liberation of the people of South Africa . |
| 13 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that there is a protocol in the Maastricht agreement calling for greater involvement of national Parliaments and Assemblies in the work of the Community ? |
| 14 | I remember my wedding ring sitting on a fat burgundy cushion , Oliver leafing through the telephone directory looking for people with silly names , how I felt . |
| 15 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 16 | Liverpool Liberal Democrat MP David Alton has written to the Home Secretary asking for a night watchman and better policing around the grounds of St Anne 's School in Overbury Street , Edge Hill , Liverpool . |
| 17 | In a detailed paper on the issues involved in opening up disciplinary hearings , the PCD asked at the December Council meeting for guidance before moving forward . |
| 18 | Er Lot number one O six Lot one O six , the opium set there 's the opium set showing for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds any more at three hundred only , at three hundred and twenty , three fifty , three eighty going on , sir ? |
| 19 | The curiously-named ‘ master break ’ jacks provide a feed to additional power amps etc. , the return socket catering for an incoming signal which will bypass the DSP 's preamp , to be fed straight to the power amp . |
| 20 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 21 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 22 | THERE is a burst of late season sailing activity with the Ruffian Class competing for their Northern Ireland title at Carrickfergus Sailing Club and the GP14 Class holding their Autumn Open at East Down Yacht Club . |
| 23 | They are secure in their roles and the young are generally simply marking time until they step into the marriage shoes waiting for them . |
| 24 | Londoners lead the buyers from the south east looking for that cottage with an acre , or the house beside a river or overlooking a rugged coast . |
| 25 | Rob Thompson , of Hounslow , is unable to travel with the England team leaving for Oman and Pakistan on Monday because of his law examinations , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 26 | Rob Thompson , of Hounslow , is unable to travel with the England team leaving for Oman and Pakistan on Monday because of his law examinations , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 27 | By the next day , hundreds of Chinese students gathered at the Nanjing campuses calling for the African students to be punished and marched on to the municipal offices . |
| 28 | Lot number one three three one three three is the sword rack there 's the sword rack showing for two hundred pounds at two hun two twenty , two forty , two sixty , two eighty , three hundred bid I 'm offered three hundred pounds and ta I shall take it at three hundred pounds , anybody else ? |
| 29 | The societies , plus Abbey National — which became a bank when it floated in 1989 — currently have a market share of about 85% , with banks and centralised lenders such as The Mortgage Corporation accounting for most of the remaining 15% . |
| 30 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |