Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 2 | Prices have dropped to a reasonable level , and we have buyers competing for them , with gazumping going on . |
| 3 | Channel 4 eased the pressure for space , but also led to more programmes competing for it . |
| 4 | That money in the consumer 's pocket : who else is competing for it ? |
| 5 | Difficulties were experienced in the provision of construction workers since labour was scarce in Siberia , and the mine administration was competing for it as well . |
| 6 | We both need a break but I ca n't afford a holiday and you would n't believe the hassle of organizing for her to go into a home for a fortnight . |
| 7 | Reluctantly , I give Sandy Lyle little chance , not helped by his wife ( a non-golfer ) caddying for him , while David Feherty , Steve Richardson , Colin Montgomerie and Gary Wolstenholme will be hoping just to do their best ; the top 24 , giving an automatic place next year , is probably their aim . |
| 8 | Caddying for him was his boss , David Powell , a scratch player himself and former Gloucestershire captain . |
| 9 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 10 | He had Jimmy Dickinson caddying for him , but Jimmy caddies for Jack Nicklaus in the Ryder Cup . |
| 11 | I approached him and asked him about caddying for him , and I was very pleased when he said yes . |
| 12 | I see , and did you , did you do a lot of canvassing for them and all this sort of thing ? |
| 13 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
| 14 | ‘ So you 're going solo now , ’ said the victim , fumbling for her smokes again . |
| 15 | And remember , any document you sign abroad is as legally binding for you as if you signed it at home . |
| 16 | It was his attitude towards Dawn , treating her with such compassion and even apologising for her . |
| 17 | I 'm always apologising for her . |
| 18 | They met him , but he began to feel it was because he paid , they had stopped protesting , they let him offer , explaining his luck , apologising for it , for the suit he had bought , for the new shirts . |
| 19 | If that was an isolated incident I am sure that the Minister will join me in apologising for it , but will he look at distribution methods to ensure that such incidents do not happen on any scale ? |
| 20 | ( The pen is weeping for me . ) |
| 21 | She had protected herself but became aware that her womb was weeping for her . |
| 22 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 23 | Indeed , if I were forced to try the impossible , to imagine what it is like to be a bat , I would guess that echolocating , for them , might be rather like seeing for us . |
| 24 | Erm are are you drawing for us ? |
| 25 | Who who 's drawing for you ? |
| 26 | The club are thinking about him and rooting for him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The whole of this club is rooting for him and wishing him well , ’ added the comparatively young Liverpool chairman , who admitted to finding his first year in office ‘ a difficult baptism ’ . |
| 28 | Christien knows Tony and Tracey and mum Sheila will be rooting for him on Monday night when the series starts . |
| 29 | What is more , he had now become very conscious of his audience and of how they were all silently rooting for him . |
| 30 | Certainly they were all rooting for him and just as certainly Harvey responded , and he did things that night that would have attracted a talent scout from the Bolshoi . |