Sentence examples for collecting material for from inspiring English sources

I sat beside Michael Crick, who was collecting material for the next edition of Archer's biography.

I also told them that I was collecting material for a magazine article about hitchhiking.

They began interviewing nurses about their work three weeks ago, pretending to be public television reporters collecting material for a documentary on nursing.

Then, the dessert and coffee over, they push back the chairs and get back on the case, collecting material for next month.

Ficowski reports that ten days before his death Schulz told an acquaintance that he was collecting material for a work about "the most awful martyrdom in history".

Saying he was collecting material for an art project, the 31-year-old visual artist sneaked into a vault at a notorious private, run-for-profit university and quietly removed tuition contracts.

He got as far as collecting materials for explosives and preparing to start building devices before stopping, fearing authorities would become suspicious, and instead focused on crossing the Syrian border.

In this way you become a hunter-gatherer, collecting materials for your family back home (Ocelot, the base's manager, repeatedly urges you to stop by regularly, lest the men begin to "miss you").

Shortly before World War II, du Perron spent a few more years in the Dutch East Indies collecting materials for De man van Lebak (1937), a critical biography of the great Dutch novelist Multatuli.

As E.M. Forster put it, "At the time that Machiavelli was collecting materials for 'The Prince', a robber boy, sorely in need of advice, was scuttling over the highlands of Central Asia.

Matejko began collecting materials for the painting in 1874.