Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 32 | People are realising what particularly the Belfast group has been preaching for years , that early availability of resuscitation is tremendously important . |
| 33 | AMERICAN born Lisa Price , now living in Llanidloes , has been appointed sales manager for Radio Maldwyn , and is successfully canvassing for advertisers in time for the independent local radio station 's launch on July 1 on 756kHz medium wave . |
| 34 | It was an ambitious aim , for Leeds were in the ignominious position of seeking re-election , and Chapman spent the rest of May canvassing for votes . |
| 35 | A candidate will be accused of canvassing for votes on another 's territory , or of fighting the election on his own behalf and without so much as a mention of his running-mates or even of his party . |
| 36 | IN May 1973 Vic Halom was in the Sunderland football team that won , wonderfully , the FA Cup ; on Tuesday evening he was back at raucous Roker Park , canvassing for votes . |
| 37 | She had sensed his relief , but he went on , fumbling for words , ‘ If there 's anything … we can do … |
| 38 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 39 | The American lady was fumbling for words . |
| 40 | The reporters were fumbling for notebooks . |
| 41 | ‘ Looks like some kind of a machine , ’ he admitted , fumbling for levers without taking his eyes off the screen . |
| 42 | Bus drivers and conductors resting between journeys are an obvious target for quota samples and are commonly overrepresented as an occupation in such samples . |
| 43 | The difference lies in the time the animal spends resting between meals ( Bayne and Scullard , 1978 ) . |
| 44 | Batsman Hinks went to Gloucestershire , and Chris Cowdrey as a part-timer to Glamorgan , while Kelleher , Dobson and Merrick were ‘ resting between engagements ’ . |
| 45 | Unemployed workers are like unemployed actors : they are ‘ just resting between engagements ’ . |
| 46 | It happened when I was standing beside Anne , resting between dances . |
| 47 | We flew round corners and bounced over cobbled junctions , ignoring traffic lights and scattering innocent pedestrians , speeding through puddles and swerving to avoid the steaming manhole covers . |
| 48 | He was rummaging under the cushions of the armchair next to mine ; leafing through magazines , one after another , and discarding them . |
| 49 | Carter are the latest thing people compare us to , every bloody review of them you read — two South Londoners with a drum machine singing about pubs and football , you think ‘ Are they writing about us again ? ’ ’ |
| 50 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 51 | and there she 'd be , strumming away , singing about places she 'd never seen and was n't likely to , rivers and mountains and islands in the sun . |
| 52 | ‘ Given the current levels of sponsorship , Average gates of around 30,000 and allowing for players ’ wages . |
| 53 | The results of Box and Hale show that for post-war England and Wales , unemployment and imprisonment were positively related even after allowing for variations in other factors . |
| 54 | They found that , on average , the futures were overpriced by 0.12% ( before allowing for transactions costs ) . |
| 55 | Using daily data for the period from June 1987 to June 1988 ( 272 observations ) , after allowing for transactions costs of 0.5–1% , they found a substantial degree of underpricing for Nikkei Stock Average futures : 42% of the time there was an underpricing in excess of the estimated transaction costs . |
| 56 | For Osaka 50 Kabusaki index futures , there was overpricing ( after allowing for transactions costs ) 40% of the time , and underpricing ( after allowing for transactions costs ) 27% of the time . |
| 57 | For Osaka 50 Kabusaki index futures , there was overpricing ( after allowing for transactions costs ) 40% of the time , and underpricing ( after allowing for transactions costs ) 27% of the time . |
| 58 | After allowing for transactions costs of 0.5% , they concluded that until early in 1989 there was clear evidence that all three futures were overpriced . |
| 59 | After allowing for transactions costs , he concluded that very few arbitrage opportunities remained . |
| 60 | Allowing for transactions costs , futures were overpriced in the period before the October 1987 crash , while after the crash there were few mispricings . |