Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relief and remorse for doubting him flooded her as his hands moved to relieve himself of his jeans . |
| 2 | We are indebted to Herman of the fire engine department for initial communication and transportation help , Major Jantos for seeing we did n't get lost , and Lt.Col . |
| 3 | The statement of the Propaganda Minister that Hitler had a ‘ sixth sense ’ for seeing what remained hidden to ordinary mortals was sarcastically said by a young secretary to explain his choice of Italy as an ally . |
| 4 | ‘ When I went to the opticians to see if my eyesight was good enough for driving she said it was beyond all medical explanation , it had to be a miracle , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Clause 9 of the Party programme could not be blamed , as Rosa Luxemburg argued , for the disintegration of the old Russia ; it had been one of the resources for saving what had been saved . |
| 6 | In the attainment targets for Writing we had put : ‘ Use Standard English , where appropriate . ’ |
| 7 | But after she moved in , the house began to grow on her and she already had plenty of ideas for improving what had originally been three farm workers ' cottages . |
| 8 | Three , four months went by until only two routes for selling them remained unexplored . |
| 9 | FIVE people quizzed over the IRA 's City of London and Staples Corner bombings were released without charge yesterday as a seven-day deadline for holding them expired . |
| 10 | Though I do blame Bernard , for getting himself mixed up with ethnic minorities . |
| 11 | And the RNA molecules themselves do n't work out a strategy for getting themselves duplicated . |
| 12 | Add to this the impending introduction of the reforms to community care and the prospect of a tight year of NHS spending in 1993–4 and you could forgive Virginia Bottomley for wishing she had a different portfolio . |
| 13 | For plastering they had to be fresh and supple with the green leaves still intact . |
| 14 | The Girl 's Own Paper of 1890 published intimidating lists of the clothes essential for travelling which included twenty dresses , as many skirts and high necked blouses , jackets to match everything , coats , cloaks , hats , gloves , handkerchiefs and veils . |
| 15 | " Your anthropologists laugh at us for saying we came from the stars . |
| 16 | Similar sentiments could be heard elsewhere , too , and people in Munich were arrested for saying they preferred ‘ Wilhelm by the grace of God ’ to the ‘ idiot from Berchtesgaden ’ . |
| 17 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 18 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 19 | In the attainment targets for reading we included the following for levels 8 , 9 and 10 : ‘ Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the twentieth century and works from different cultures . ’ |
| 20 | 1986 ) , to be included — combining an orientation to the world of work with strategies for learning which emphasized relevance and inquiry . |
| 21 | It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends . |
| 22 | We were convinced we had witnessed a terrible accident and hurried to the police station at Lochcarron to report the incident , there to be reassured that there had not been a crash , and gently rebuked for assuming there had been . |
| 23 | Advances in understanding other receptors and in devising methods for isolating them gave a more fundamental approach to the morphine problem . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal has ruled that she can use an ancient law to sue the Today newspaper for claiming she stole letters belonging to the princess . |
| 25 | With over 60 per cent of the French market tied up between them , the Peugeot-Citroen group and Renault could be forgiven for thinking they had little to worry about . |
| 26 | When Xerxes invaded , Herodotus has nothing to say about resistance by Macedon , and this is one of the strongest arguments for thinking they medised . |
| 27 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 28 | Ten years later , and you could be forgiven for thinking you 'd stumbled into Liberace 's Grotto . |
| 29 | Frankfurt Dear Professor , Forgive me , forgive me , for thinking you did n't care ! |
| 30 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |