Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 2 | THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia . |
| 3 | He joins Yuill from Twyfords where he was marketing manager for four years . |
| 4 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been thinking , it 's a long time since the two of us went out together , so I 'm taking Ruth for a bite to eat . |
| 6 | I began to wonder if I was creating profiles for murder . |
| 7 | The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’ |
| 8 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
| 9 | Get titles right as well and if you are using initials for long names always spell out the name at least once . |
| 10 | If you are copying artwork for a magazine article , half of the work ( i.e. designing the track layout itself ) is already done for you , and all you need to do is reproduce the given copper track layout onto a suitable medium . |
| 11 | You should read this section if you are installing FMS for the first time , or are not sure if you have sufficient global sections and global pages available . |
| 12 | If you are installing LIFESPAN for the first time , then it is recommended that you create up to three LIFESPAN Processes , as described below . |
| 13 | Completely all-over patterning would certainly not be practical if you are making garments for sale as it is fairly time consuming , but ‘ at random ’ or in a close group they are splendidly spectacular and make a wonderful splash of colour and pattern . |
| 14 | If you are claiming compensation for damage , please keep the damaged article and its packaging , as we may need to inspect them . |
| 15 | especially if you 're using theta for the angle looks a bit like theta . |
| 16 | If you 're borrowing money for the event , be it £200 or £20,000 , include the interest payments as part of your expenditure budget . |
| 17 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 18 | So , there 's that to consider as well if you 're writing spreadsheets for other people . |
| 19 | They think that if you 're buying things for your child — the computer , video and TV — you 're doing well by them , and they do n't need a cuddle . |
| 20 | CHATEAU LAVERGNE MOULIN 1990 ( Asda , £3.35 ) : Really classy , smooth , velvety Bordeaux , the perfect choice if you 're having beef for Christmas . |
| 21 | But if you 're playing guitar for your own personal pleasure , which many of us do , then you want the guitar to talk to you — not to some non-existent person sitting fifteen feet away . |
| 22 | If you were giving outline for building , it would be different . |
| 23 | ‘ If we are taking responsibility for the stock and the write-off of obsolete and redundant stock , then the supplier is giving us improved discounts ; that 's essentially the deal , ’ Mr Barker answers . |
| 24 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 25 | The family 's legal advisers have told them , if they 're seeking damages for the death of Tony Allis , they must start proceedings before next July , the third anniversary of his death . |
| 26 | The family 's legal advisers have told them , if they 're seeking damages for the death of Tony Allis , they must start proceedings before next July , the third anniversary of his death . |
| 27 | This is just what we should expect if they are playing Tit for Tat . |
| 28 | The specially-adapted unmarked cars will be compared on a day-to-day basis with a marked police car to see if they are giving value for money . |
| 29 | Under s393(9) , excess charges on income arising in the final accounting period of a vendor company can be deducted as if they were trading losses for the purpose of carry-back or carry-across of losses , whereas charges on income can usually be deducted only in the accounting period in which they are paid ( though excess charges on income can be group relieved where the vendor is a member of a group of companies within s402 TA 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Trow ( 1974 , p. 6.3 ) has distinguished between elite and mass systems of higher education and argues that ‘ Countries that develop a system of elite higher education in modern times seem able to expand it without changing its character in fundamental ways until it is providing places for about 15% of the age grade . ’ |