Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With several leading opposition figures clamouring for his resignation and calling for a national conference , President Mobutu Sese Seko on March 15 named a new Prime Minister , Mulumba Lukeji , replacing Lunda Bululu who had resigned the day before . |
| 2 | He would visit his home , making faces at the Pearson children as they hung out their bedroom windows looking for him . |
| 3 | Well to-do visitors would have taken it as their right to be given a tour of the house and gardens as they travelled the country in past centuries — today visitors from all over the world come to Blenheim — their entrance fees paying for its up-keep . |
| 4 | They are secure in their roles and the young are generally simply marking time until they step into the marriage shoes waiting for them . |
| 5 | You would have thought The Woman In Black would n't have stood a ghost of a chance of survival with just two actors , a simple set and some offstage sound effects going for it . |
| 6 | HADLEIGH will face a tough task with several of their first team players missing for their clash with Stowmarket tomorrow . |
| 7 | When he was expected home , Alice would stand at the top of the area steps watching for him . |
| 8 | A significant indicator of poverty in any society is the number of people who can be seen poking in rubbish bins looking for something that is still usable , since surviving off society 's rubbish epitomises ultimate poverty . |
| 9 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 10 | Every burger joint seems to be full of leisure-wear parents waiting for their delinquents to come off the hill and be escorted home . |
| 11 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 12 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 13 | The abandonment of the project , which cost the Exchange 75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 14 | Reaching the shed , I stepped over several mounds of brick and other rubble and went inside , looking carefully at the wet streaked brick walls searching for anything that could be identifiable with the depot . |
| 15 | HESWALL 'S Ian Spencer leads the contingent of north west hopefuls bidding for their tour cards at the annual European School at Montpellier in the south of France from November 13-18 . |
| 16 | IF YOU want to capture the full flavour of Europe at work , walk into the Bonola commercial centre in Milan , past the hypermarket , the elegant boutiques and the coffee drinkers queuing for their early morning caffeine jolt , and hitch a lift to the second floor . |
| 17 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |