Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of just waiting for Hugh to come back , for the baby , for the rain to stop . |
| 2 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 3 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |
| 4 | The government of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in India maintained the previous low-profile response , with an expression of " deep sadness " on Jan. 17 coupled with calls for Iraq to begin an immediate withdrawal ; only the Communist Party ( Marxist ) took a firm line in denouncing " unjustified " US aggression , while still calling for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 5 | Shareholders are now looking for Hansom approved . |
| 6 | Even allowing for O'Donovan doing half as much business , this would mean 3000 tonnes of toxic waste leaving Ireland a year . |
| 7 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 8 | He did n't always recognize the president 's authority , there 's a wonderful , there 's a wonderful true story of er er at some point in the Korean war Truman flew out from Los Angeles and MacArthur flew out from er Korea and they met in one of the Pacific islands , I forget which one i er Wake Island I think , and , and on the runway you had the president 's plane at one end and MacArthur 's plane at the other end you see , and Truman sits there waiting for MacArthur to come to him and MacArthur sits there waiting for the president to come to him , you see , and nobody moves . |
| 9 | There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions . |