Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , what chance does a white , yellow or orange fish have of lurking in wait for prey ? |
| 2 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 3 | MPs voted by 348 votes to 123 last night in favour of legislating to allow the prosecution of alleged war criminals now living in Britain for crimes committed in Germany or German-occupied territory during the last war . |
| 4 | Two CDU politicians , in comments seen as trial balloons for a longer debate , argued at the weekend that Bonn 's laws should allow dual citizenship to extend full rights to foreigners living in Germany for decades . |
| 5 | ( Notice that " Modern Language " in titles usually means literature as well as language , and looking in bibliographies for ideas about what to read is called a LITERATURE SEARCH — " literature " in this sense means " the collection of what has been written " . ) |
| 6 | Fashion house worker Lisa Jones , 26 , admitted looking in bins for bombs , but added : ‘ If you worried all the time , you 'd go crazy . ’ |
| 7 | Did you check their tenancy agreement , because it was a pretty Machiavellian , Dickensian tenancy agreement , if you 're found smoking in bed for example , you were out the next morning , those sort of things , and I think you really ought to look at that very carefully . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister , for example , writing in Action for Cities in 1988 argued that ‘ the Government has created a climate which supports enterprise and has set about removing obstacles in the way of inner city recovery ( HMSO , 1988a , p. 2 ) . |
| 9 | Their analysis may not go any deeper than that , but it is expressed in a way which impresses Letterman , a sort of passionate commitment to the power of the idea which he has — subversively — been advocating in Hollywood for years . |
| 10 | Barn owls have been declining in Britain for years as hedges where their food lives are ripped out . |
| 11 | Had he been on the Cardinal 's business or lying in ambush for Irvine ? |
| 12 | The scumniks , who had been lying in wait for prey , used stubguns , grenades — then , at close quarters , a chainsword and knives . |
| 13 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 14 | He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike . |
| 15 | But just around the corner , Death was lying in wait for Dustin once again . |
| 16 | No , it talks about the life as it 's lying in store for instance . |
| 17 | Ethnic Serbian deputies walked out of the session , and formed on Oct. 24 the " Assembly of the Serbian Nation of Bosnia-Hercegovina " , fixing a plebiscite on remaining in Yugoslavia for Nov. 9 and 19 . |
| 18 | He was waiting in Hollywood for news of his £4 million properties on Kauai — where South Pacific was filmed — after Hurricane Iniki scored a direct hit . |
| 19 | The company is still waiting in line for US certification — as is every other database vendor . |
| 20 | The company is still waiting in line for US certification — as is every other database vendor . |
| 21 | The conclusion kept her tossing and turning in despair for hours , the sound of traffic in the High Street a poor substitute for the lulling boom of the sea round Gullholm . |
| 22 | The course focussed on the making of stick chairs , using the traditional rounder planes reintroduced by the late Fred Lambert and described by Bob Wearing in Woodworker for February 1988 . |
| 23 | Among his sacred possessions were an enormous club which could raise the slain to life again ; a magic harp whose music made its listeners forget sorrow ; an inexhaustible cauldron from which no-one is turned away hungry ; and two marvellous sheep — one eternally roasting , the other forever feeding in readiness for slaughter . |
| 24 | But most men are also uneducated and lacking in chances for advancement . |
| 25 | New facts found by accident may be the starting point for new theories and social observers are certainly not lacking in opportunities for chance stimulation in their ordinary everyday life , since they themselves live among the phenomena which they study . |
| 26 | The ministers also agreed to shorten from 120 days to 30 days the payment period for buying in grain for EC intervention stocks . |
| 27 | Unlike its competitors , Eden is still avoiding building in support for wireless data networks in its machines : it 's an attractive market on paper but ‘ we 've looked at the available technology and put together designs , but have n't taken it very far because the pricing just has n't worked ’ says Crisp . |
| 28 | For five and a half hours , competitors in teams of four , battled it out finishing in time for lunch late in the afternoon . |
| 29 | A four-year trial scheme should be set up using firms outside London specialising in actions for trade union members . |
| 30 | Small gaps in joints can be sealed with silicon bath sealant and 13 amp electrical sockets can be protected by blanking plugs , usually available for child safety , from some large stores specialising in goods for children . |