Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was dying of jealousy for guys whose faces were just cratered with seeping yellow pus . |
| 2 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 3 | In the Medical Research Council 's trial the relative risk of dying from cancer for men receiving atenolol was 1.9 compared with placebo ( 1.2 to 2.8 ) and 1.4 ( 0.9 to 2.2 ) compared with diuretic . |
| 4 | the unilateral assumption of the conduct of matters by the son must be distinguished from the son acting as agent for plaintiffs in the procuring of the signatures of his parents to the deeds . |
| 5 | The Americans were actually behind us in discovering the importance of preventive and rehabilitative services , but when they got round to looking for permanence for children in care their strategy was a combined one of permanence with natural families and permanence with new families . |
| 6 | She is also lobbying for relief for nurseries from the uniform business rate , in the same way as educational establishments ; she wants them to be zero-rated for VAT purposes and provided with loans for safety improvements and training . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister , for example , writing in Action for Cities in 1988 argued that ‘ the Government has created a climate which supports enterprise and has set about removing obstacles in the way of inner city recovery ( HMSO , 1988a , p. 2 ) . |
| 8 | Table III shows the characteristics of the 186 asthmatics according to need for bronchodilators . |
| 9 | They 're looking at information for parents rather than doctors . |
| 10 | Coniferous forests , often hunting by day for mammals as large as squirrels and lemmings . |
| 11 | Forests , coniferous , deciduous and mixed , sometimes in villages and large cities , often hunting by day for mammals up to the size of a red squirrel and birds up to the size of a Hazelhen. 24 in. ( 61 cm . ) . |
| 12 | I ca n't see the education committee with their lack of money paying for transport for children from here |
| 13 | I ca n't see the education committee , with their lack of money , paying for transport for children out here to go to hospital to do a garden |
| 14 | The conclusion kept her tossing and turning in despair for hours , the sound of traffic in the High Street a poor substitute for the lulling boom of the sea round Gullholm . |
| 15 | Jones played on , helping back row partner Adrian Varney grab two tries , before going to hospital for x-rays on his jaw . |
| 16 | Already , independent specialist consultants are helping farmers by walking fields and assisting with advice for strategies of control . |
| 17 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 18 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |
| 19 | This case involved the sale of " Brazilian groundnut extractions " required for compounding as food for cattle and poultry by the first buyers . |
| 20 | They sold to the second buyers for the purpose of compounding into food for pigs and poultry . |
| 21 | ‘ I aim to publish a book specialising in food for babies and children up to 12 , focusing on everyday , simple recipes which put more fun into eating . |
| 22 | The Sea Rover episode was the only occasion I have known a smuggling vessel to be fired upon directly during my time with the customs , as a result of failing to heave-to for customs examination . |
| 23 | Upper limits to stocking per hectare for HLCAs are similar in both countries . |
| 24 | She walked towards the door with an effort , glancing at Roman for signs that he too was on the verge of sleep . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 26 | Women in headscarves were sifting through the untidy muddle like rescue workers scrabbling in rubble for survivors while children stood by , waiting for the emergence of something to look at . |
| 27 | I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east ! |