Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By his coming to us as a human being and by his suffering , dying and rising for us , our lives have meaning and hope . |
| 2 | No doubt everyone in Mouncy Street knew what he had bought and had been looking or waiting for him to find out . |
| 3 | The UNHCR is too weak to press the governments of Kenya or Djibouti into accepting and caring for them . |
| 4 | And in a four-generation family of Dumfries master slaters , the 13-year-old granddaughter was daily housekeeper to the eighty-year-old grandfather , cooking and cleaning for him : ‘ you just did what you were told . |
| 5 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been waiting and waiting for you to do that . |
| 7 | I kept waiting and waiting for you to ask me to stay but you did n't . |
| 8 | With Mrs. Crawley , the narrative reflects the belief of most people in the nineteenth century that the best place for a woman is with her husband , supporting and caring for him . |
| 9 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 10 | Well if you stop crying and ask for it properly and you do n't mind if mummy or daddy do it for you that 's fine . |
| 11 | I do n't feel up to coming and looking for you and it 's quite worrying alone up here when one ca n't move around . |
| 12 | Doctor 's with your Pappy now , Miss Cora-Beth , and he 's ill with grieving and Jake went off on horseback not half an hour ago to fetch you and Mr Harry back from your party and we 's been waitin' and waitin' for you … ’ |
| 13 | He 's back home where his mum does all his cooking , washing and ironing for him . |
| 14 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 15 | ‘ But please let me know whether or not you 'll be home this evening — otherwise I 'll be watching and waiting for you . ’ |
| 16 | Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised . |
| 17 | I knew that from day one , and would n't take the trouble of working and saving for them . |
| 18 | In front of the Brandenburg Gate and elsewhere , they perched precariously on top of the Wall , clapping and calling for it to go . |