Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 2 | But after watching Brazil for a total of three hours , few gems of individualism stayed in the memory . |
| 3 | There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents . |
| 4 | Already there is talk of using Macintoshes for packaging design , 35mm slide and OHP production and a host of other graphics oriented functions . |
| 5 | But Sanders advises caution for those considering using NT for long-term mission critical applications . |
| 6 | His general note was one of chiding MacDonald for the weakness of his control over his own extremists and suggesting that what the country needed was men of practical experience , breadth of view and lack of dogmatic commitment . |
| 7 | Secondly , we had the early misfortune of booking Emma for ski lessons with a French ski school whose woman teacher was an ogress . |
| 8 | He over-valued the pound when we went into the ERM and , coupled with his insistence of achieving zero inflation , that is destroying industry , jobs , homes , families and any chance of rebuilding Britain for a better future . |
| 9 | In what was ultimately to become Venezuela the revolutionary implications of the movement were decisive ; a Junta in Caracas swept aside the existing administration and , in the name of preserving America for Ferdinand VII , disowned the authority of the Cadiz Regency , that is of the legal government of Spain . |
| 10 | The House of Representatives took the unprecedented step of citing Burford for ‘ contempt of Congress ’ — a charge that , if proved , could put her behind bars . |
| 11 | In his declared aim of regenerating Spain for his own profit Napoleon was to inherit a portion of these ambitions . |
| 12 | ‘ Naturally , we are very aggrieved at the incident and are considering citing Jones for the incident in the tackle . ’ |
| 13 | Referee Ian Gilmour took no action at the time , but Wire general manager Ron Close revealed : ‘ We have looked at the video and are considering citing Jones for the tackle . ’ |
| 14 | William Seward , President Lincoln 's Secretary of State , the man who had committed the legendary ‘ folly ’ of buying Alaska for rather more than $7 million , made an even more provocative forecast in the mid-nineteenth century : . |
| 15 | This was accomplished by the trades of buying September for £59900 , and selling March for £62025 . |
| 16 | There was talk of sending Edward for a short health-restoring visit to Swindon . |
| 17 | ‘ No , but I 'm thinking of asking Tim for the truth . ’ |
| 18 | The alleged swindle took the form of charging Wessex for computer services which had not been rendered and double charging for services which had been rendered by a multiplication of invoices and false entries . |
| 19 | Léonie decided to reserve the pleasure of baiting Madeleine for later . |
| 20 | YORKSHIRE were last night on the brink of pipping Worcester for the signature of West Indies ' paceman Ken Benjamin to boost their weak attack . |
| 21 | Scotland 's last hopes of pipping Canada for a quarter-final place ended with the 3-0 defeat to Sweden . |
| 22 | With her marriage to Damian , his life 's work of fighting Charles for the company was finally at an end . |
| 23 | When they reach their goal , Abraham goes calmly about the business of preparing Isaac for slaughter . |
| 24 | There was less talk of preparing Nato for war by 1954 . |
| 25 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 26 | The idea of leaving London for good — with its galleries , the opera and everything — was just too much for me . |
| 27 | Locke 's surprise appearance was his way of repaying Diana for her part in setting him up recently on TV 's This Is Your Life . |
| 28 | I 'm not a man of all that much letters , though I like to think that I was fully capable of arranging Shakespeare for Ben 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 29 | He hopes to bully Mr Kinnock — Mr Major 's refusal to contemplate such a deal is absolute — into establishing PR for ever , something for which only a fifth of the electorate will have voted . |
| 30 | Herr Genscher proposed a number of joint German-US measures , including blaming Serbia for the fighting and suspending its membership of the CSCE . |