Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 2 | Sitting on the veranda herself a short while later as she worked on a lacy white shawl she was secretly knitting for the baby , Belinda murmured aloud , ‘ I hope Tom comes today . |
| 3 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
| 4 | The University was fortunate in successfully bidding for a capital grant from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) towards the cost of a £1.5 million extension of the Pathfoot Building , now completed and being used to re-locate the Department of History with the rest of the School of Arts in Pathfoot . |
| 5 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 6 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 7 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 8 | The post-war expansion of forest cover in Northern countries is effectively " mopping up " increased carbon emissions , so compensating for the loss of tropical forests and countering the greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) . |
| 10 | The Russian swore , feverishly searching for a grenade . |
| 11 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 12 | So acting for a buyer , if no protective entries appear on the Register you need have no qualms ; if they do , you will of course question them by requisition or otherwise . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm only looking for a taxi . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 15 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |
| 16 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
| 17 | For a long moment silence hung in the air between them , Candy obviously searching for a solution to a problem she had never encountered before . |
| 18 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 19 | Cos you ca n't go and say well I 'm only going for a couple of weeks ! |
| 20 | He 's only , he 's only going for a couple of weeks |
| 21 | He 's [ the killer 's companion ] only waiting for a knock on the door , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 22 | He 's [ the killer 's companion ] only waiting for a knock on the door , ’ Mr Brown added . |
| 23 | He was only waiting for a chance . |
| 24 | ‘ Only waiting for a taxi . ’ |
| 25 | He also alleged that the KGB had recruited hundreds of British traitors who were only waiting for the signal from Moscow to begin destroying Britain 's communication system and military establishments around the country . |
| 26 | Agnes is only waiting for the guest to start speaking his reason for coming . |
| 27 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 28 | ‘ What 's life , ’ he said with a pessimism that fed Richard 's gloom , ‘ only waiting for the end . ’ |
| 29 | However , in parliamentary terms Mr Nelson has been long waiting for a call from a prime minister offering jobs . |
| 30 | As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it . |