Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horton broke off and looked at Wycliffe as though apologising for boring him . |
| 2 | Frankie said : ‘ I kept apologising for wasting their time . |
| 3 | ‘ People were apologising for having to vote against us , ’ sighed Freddie Emery-Wallis , the Tory leader of the council for 17 years . |
| 4 | ‘ You know how it is , ’ he would say to their hosts , on the pretext of apologising for arriving late , ‘ She could n't find a thing to wear . |
| 5 | The poor man frantically tried to bargain for his reinstatement , admitting that he had been not altogether sober and apologising for making a resignation he did not want . |
| 6 | A notice apologising for keeping visitors waiting and inviting them to look at the booklets adds the finishing touch . |
| 7 | She came into the studio , apologising for keeping Ruth waiting , and pulling on a light summer jacket . |
| 8 | Then he turned to me , apologising for keeping me waiting , and showed me in to his office . |
| 9 | This afternoon you started out apologising for spying on me , and ended up accusing me of spying on you . ’ |
| 10 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 11 | Screens can be created at several levels , allowing for rising levels of difficulty in one case or for thematic treatment , or for a mix of information and questions and exercises . |
| 12 | A Welsh and M Davidson had drafted revised job descriptions , re-balancing job loadings , adjusting responsibilities , and allowing for grading differences , for both library assistants ( AA & AO ) , and CW had obtained approval for the changes from existing staff . |
| 13 | Allowing for running and folding time , proof correction , author 's corrections , design and scripting , it soon becomes clear that by early-May you must be sitting down to plan the details of those leaflets — no later . |
| 14 | Then , Messrs. Gwynne 's proposal for equalising the strain on each individual rope by means of connected hydraulic rams is most satisfactory , as also is their suggesting for actuating the lift-up gates by means of hydraulic pressure utilising the engine for pumping up the accumulator . ’ |
| 15 | Pesci , a bungling burglar in the movie and its upcoming sequel , gave up singing for acting 15 years ago . |
| 16 | Methods you are currently using for identifying training needs . |
| 17 | We asked at what point the environmental effects of catering for housing growth were taken into account ? |
| 18 | In an effort to prepare nursing for meeting society 's needs in the future , policy makers have challenged many of the traditional views and approaches of nurses who evolved in a very different social milieu , and instead identified a much broader role for the new practitioner aimed at improving standards of care available to the public . |
| 19 | Additional ancillary services such as data interpretation , preparation of customised products , and materials handling for logging and treatment of borehole core were being sought as a spin-off from regular project work . |
| 20 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |
| 21 | Well at one time , I was able to cope with that , but eventually I found myself taking three and four weeks to do it , y'know , with time wasting for going out trying to score and stuff like this , just to feel as though I could cope with the job . |
| 22 | So what the fucking hell are you doing here apologizing for apologizing for a drug . |
| 23 | Like , you 're apologizing for crying . |
| 24 | And then the miracle Ellie was still praying for happened . |
| 25 | Opening For Going Through |
| 26 | " Yes — I suppose Freud and people like that would say I was compensating for losing my mother . |
| 27 | John has devised a system of tooling for turning nests of bowls , which he presented at the Loughborough seminar and has been taken up and will be marketed in the near future . |
| 28 | Since these calculations were made the government has raised the capital level for those qualifying for housing benefit . |
| 29 | Quigley ( 1969 ) did find the Rochester Method ( fingerspelling with lip-reading ) better than the oral method and also better than signing for producing success in English . |
| 30 | The Ethiopian government responded by pressing for airlifting of relief supplies to the Eritrean provincial capital , Asmara , effectively surrounded by rebel forces . |