Example sentences of "and [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club are thinking about him and rooting for him . ’ |
| 2 | He had booked a beach house in Phuket , the island paradise on the coast of Thailand , for their honeymoon , and Rachel was both dreading it and clamouring for it . |
| 3 | Programs spend time both using the resources and queueing for them . |
| 4 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ He gave me a message of love and understanding for her , ’ Mrs Palko , 55 , claimed . |
| 8 | By comparison , following a chain or tag involves reading the link field , finding the key in it , picking up the address and searching for it . |
| 9 | I knew that from day one , and would n't take the trouble of working and saving for them . |
| 10 | Get someone to do the alterations and mending for you . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sir Alf Ramsey was n't popular with many ( it is n't a manager 's job to be popular ) but every player who played for him had enormous respect and liking for him . |
| 14 | The abbot 's guests had dispersed decorously , Rémy and Earl Robert in amicable company to the guesthall , where Bénezet was already returned from his evening in the town , in good time to attend his lord , as the earl 's two squires stood ready and waiting for theirs . |
| 15 | A fortnight away by the sea and when they came back , the flat all ready and waiting for them . |
| 16 | They had plenty of berries and there would be jobs ready and waiting for them . |
| 17 | Horses nearly always hesitate when they are led into a dark stable at night , even if they know their dinner is ready and waiting for them there . |
| 18 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 19 | In essence , what has stood me in good stead all these years in broadcasting is spotting good people and waiting for them to come forward with what interests them ; what obsessions , what passions they have in translating those into programmes . |
| 20 | Felipe was out of the water and waiting for them as they arrived at the place where the lake quietly lapped the path . |
| 21 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |
| 22 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 23 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 24 | He 'll have been sending his money out there for years , all ready and waiting for him to arrive . ’ |
| 25 | By the time he had locked off the plane 's controls and opened the door , Ahmed Myeloski was out of the Lada and waiting for him by the side of the executive jet . |
| 26 | Thinking of the girl who would probably be up and dressed and waiting for him to go downstairs , Harry frowned uneasily . |
| 27 | But he had been unafraid , although a tremor had gone through him as he entered the great Sun Chamber and found Dierdriu alone and waiting for him . |
| 28 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 29 | I was too busy holding on to the edge of my chair and waiting for him to rise twenty feet in the air . |
| 30 | Cornelius woke again to find the world up and waiting for him . |