Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 2 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 3 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 4 | Twenty-eight ambulance control officers in the London area were suspended without pay yesterday for refusing to cover for colleagues taking industrial action . |
| 5 | For example , if teachers notice that a child or group of children are tending to look for information in books simply by leafing through them , hoping to find the information by accident , they can , at this stage , point out the use of the contents and index pages , and run through some quick games using these . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The Guardian of June 20 reported that 20,000 Iraqi Kurds in a transit camp near the border in Silopi were refusing to leave for Iraq without guarantees of their safety , and the Turkish authorities reported that a further 12,200 refugees from Iraq were still accommodated in other camps inside Turkey . |
| 8 | By the time I am curled up in my bag I am totally content , warm and well fed , exhausted but not wanting to sleep for fear of missing these moments of happiness . |
| 9 | The court ruled that a federal judge had abused his power when in August 1988 he had imposed fines on the council members , including the mayor , Henry G. Spallone , for refusing to vote for legislation needed to carry out a housing desegregation plan , itself a product of a suit brought by the NAACP against Westchester County for housing and school discrimination in 1980 . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it is incredible that with the supposed new spirit of co-operation , a major tourist country like France should have this quite ridiculous position where people wanting to pay for goods and services are being charged exorbitant fees , ’ he said . |
| 11 | They are still refusing to pay for licences , or to pay fines , and they seem quite prepared to go to Mountjoy Jail in a spirit of martyrdom . |
| 12 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 13 | It accuses the company of imposing American business practices and ignoring ‘ traditional French negotiation ’ in refusing to pay for cost overruns . |
| 14 | They come to the job with vague convictions of wanting to care for people , of doing a worthwhile job for which they will be given respect . |
| 15 | THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines . |
| 16 | So we 're already , there 's , there 's people , if we 're going at night time we 're going to go for houses without lights on . |
| 17 | And then we come to race nine , the third leg of our yankee tonight , Radio Oxford 's yankee , that 's in the nine thirty two erm here I 'm going to go for Kerry Limb Gold in trap six erm this one does like the underfoot conditions to be soft , so he 's got it tonight — Kerry Limb Gold then as the third leg of the yankee , nine thirty two . |
| 18 | I if , if you could have got some cadres on the ground , you know , so , so the other bit of this is is if you are going to go for land reform you 've got to have , not just the military presence and military security , but enough trained honest highly motivated cadres . |
| 19 | erm And here , I 'm going to go for an outsider really , erm I 'm going to go for Ashfield Charlie erm in trap two , Tommy Foster from Wimbledon trained runner this is . |
| 20 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 21 | Well this is a four fifty metre , an A three grade and I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy . |
| 22 | erm She 's having her first race tonight erm under her latest a newish trainer , Bernie Doyle , he 's doing ever so well , his kennel 's really in form erm so I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy to win erm first time erm at the track tonight , that 's the third leg . |
| 23 | erm And then the twelfth race , the ten twenty , there was just the top erm standard distance event , an A one grade , four fifty metres and I 'm going to go for trap one again , Ambridge Power , trained by Paul Garland , another nice erm nice dog , he 's running really well . |
| 24 | In the second race which is a sprint race , that 's a two bend race , I 'm going to go for trap one , Brook Mead Flash trained by Paul Garland. erm Ideal draw trap one , Brook Mead Flash there for me , dangerous Flashing Sabre in five and Super Zoom in trap two . |
| 25 | The management team had , I 'll sit down if you do n't mind , the management team has decided that we were going to go for quality because it was a matter of survival . |
| 26 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 27 | No actually I went for four to one Oxford , but tonight I 'm going to go for Port Vale two , Oxford United two . |
| 28 | It 's also a good time to decide where you 're going to sit for example , in the dining room or the lounge . |
| 29 | ‘ But they were going to wait for Floy to get back ! |
| 30 | ‘ They are n't going to wait for Floy to come back , ’ said Caspar . |