Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm quite amenable to people coming over and using my phone for making business-related phone calls . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid what he has to say will cause considerable distress , ’ she said , after explaining her reason for telephoning . |
| 3 | As you do so , try to build up a system of classification , explaining your basis for making distinctions . |
| 4 | The two sides also issued a joint statement expressing their support for making Antarctica an international nature reserve , as first proposed by the French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau . |
| 5 | Leopold accordingly wrote in the sternest terms , castigating his son for leaving the archbishop 's service so abruptly , and accusing him ( as usual ) for thoughtlessness and selfishness . |
| 6 | The response of labour unions was also lukewarm since the changes were seen as limiting their scope for bestowing benefits on their members . |
| 7 | Agnes is only waiting for the guest to start speaking his reason for coming . |
| 8 | The 1977 Housing ( Homeless persons ) Act ( now consolidated in the 1985 Housing Act ) responds to pregnancy of single women by giving them priority for rehousing by the local authority . |
| 9 | But I 've learned to stop blaming my penis for getting into a muddle when attempting to decode my hidden desires . |
| 10 | BOGUS aristocrat Rosemary Aberdour was back at the Old Bailey yesterday in danger of having her sentence for stealing £2.7 million from a hospital charity increased . |
| 11 | Of course — the other day at the Rose Bowl , when Miss Philimore had been demonstrating her system for dealing with ‘ standing orders ’ . |
| 12 | This morning in a surprise announcement Thames Water said they were deferring their application for planning by at least five years |
| 13 | And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help . |
| 14 | The justices made the order and , in giving their reason for doing so , stated that the order was required so that the child could be given help and guidance to meet his special needs . |
| 15 | The IFM says an angling test should at first be voluntary but perhaps become compulsory in the future with anglers losing their licence for breaking a code of practice . |
| 16 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 17 | LEFT His equipment set up to demonstrate this fact using an unfortunate frog.BOTTOM Du Bois-Reymond demonstrating his apparatus for investigating muscular current and electric potential . |
| 18 | The only other source was his memory of the creature 's jigsaw face , and , knowing his propensity for forgetting , they 'd start to fade all too soon . |
| 19 | ‘ He died cursing your father for trapping him into a loveless marriage , ’ he growled . |
| 20 | As voice mails tend to be pretty large files , I do n't think Gav would be too happy if we started using his listserver for singing telegrams , but the odd voice mail between us might be fun . |
| 21 | He wrote and thanked the Lord Treasurer for restoring his halcyon days , showing his love for Halling . |
| 22 | It is no doubt all to the good that we should rid ourselves of the delusion that our mortal bodies are inhabited by immortal souls , but , in claiming to be human beings , we are asserting our capacity for exercising moral choice and that implies moral responsibility . |
| 23 | Well we wo n't necessarily be using your package for doing this . |
| 24 | It was Tax Day , the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns , and the day that a New York judge had ordered Mrs Helmsley , 71 , to surrender to jail after two and a half years of appeals following her conviction for cheating the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) of $1.7 million . |
| 25 | In terms of the legalistic concept of private property , an individual is able to own an object with which he or she may have no personal relationship , thus preventing others from realizing their potential for achieving such a relationship . |
| 26 | ‘ That should do it , ’ Bloxham said , slamming the boot and offering his hand for shaking . |