Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You see , ’ he murmured , ‘ I wanted to believe it , so I could have an excuse to take what I wanted in a fury , instead of reaching out of my confusion and asking for what I wanted — ’ |
| 2 | And now he was curling his mouth and going for his fingers as though he could start all over again , not two hours later ! |
| 3 | London may just be carrying too big a burden of research and teaching for its population — but the means by which research and education get redistributed , rather than simply shut , remain unclear . |
| 4 | Mrs Paisley brought a message from her husband in prison , condemning the rioting and asking for it to stop . |
| 5 | However , just the fact that you are able to insist on interest does give you some leverage when asking for your account to be paid . |
| 6 | prior to 1972 the MCA had strictly forbidden member firms to use executive search when recruiting for their clients . |
| 7 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 8 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 9 | ‘ A clean and handsome range of cars that challenge the accepted architecture and proportioning for their class ’ |
| 10 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 11 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 12 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 13 | The reader may be doomed to disappointment in reading through an article with wide contextual terms of reference if looking for something as simple as descriptions of works of art , their interpretation and evaluation . |
| 14 | For me , movies and play were enmeshed during childhood , a certain cinema and its environs being both stimulus and setting for my juvenile adventures to the extent that , thirty years later , its contours and hidey holes still haunt my dreams . |
| 15 | They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice . |
| 16 | Although he now had the potential earning power of any major movie star , he nevertheless remained on unemployment benefit while waiting for his agent to find the right new vehicle for him . |
| 17 | Bayley , knowing this not to be the case , suspecting foul play and fearing for his own safety , refused to supply one . |
| 18 | Richard Baxter arranged a day of special prayer and fasting for her deliverance on New Year 's Eve 1659 . |
| 19 | On the contrary , I read them as dismantling an old Crown privilege and substituting for it a principle upon which , in certain limited circumstances , the court has a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown as law enforcer . |
| 20 | As we passed people stood back on either side , loud-mouthed apprentices and washerwomen in leather clogs stopping their noisy clatter and waiting for us to pass . |
| 21 | This group must put across its views and gain popular support and understanding for its campaign . |
| 22 | Our strengths are obvious , that of compassion , support and feeling for our people when in trouble . |
| 23 | Often groups can be given a " familiarisation visit " , going behind the scenes in the archives to learn about the range of documents and the methods of preserving and caring for them . |
| 24 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |
| 25 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 26 | Actually there were probably fewer than twenty , but purchasers were assured the claim could only be verified by listening to the record and counting for themselves ( 41b ) . |
| 27 | For women without previous commitment to their own career , dependent as they still often are on the normally higher earnings of men , there may be the excitement of starting their life project , married to their husband 's job and caring for him and their much hoped-for children . |
| 28 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 29 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 30 | Innocent 's ideal was the sober , clean-living clerk , assiduous in his duties of counselling and caring for his flock , bringing it the word and flesh of God . |