Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is very much in contention for a first-team place , although he may not think so after playing for the juniors . |
| 2 | The NFFO yesterday drew back from calling for a sea and road blockade to stop the supplies of foreign fish . |
| 3 | Alison recounted : ‘ I started off at Stirling when I was seven , played until I was 12 and helped out with coaching for a year after that . |
| 4 | His two main sponsors have dropped out of racing for the moment leaving him chasing a £3,000 shortfall . |
| 5 | Most frequently , under the two-party system , all these requirements are met easily by sending for the Leader of the Opposition or of the majority party , as the case may be , upon the fall of government-as happened , for example , in 1945 and 1951 . |
| 6 | Richard is said to have favoured the axe as a hand-to-hand weapon , and a contemporary poem records that he had one made specially before departing for the Holy Land : |
| 7 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |
| 8 | Our entry into the field of study which encompasses the language of deaf people came about in searching for an educational solution for deaf children . |
| 9 | ‘ It will be interesting to see if any of the lads can make another breakthrough at the Carlsberg Ulster championships , and I must admit I 'm looking forward to watching for a change . ’ |
| 10 | He babbled on without waiting for an answer . |
| 11 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 12 | She always knocked and then walked in without waiting for a response . |
| 13 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 14 | … female friendship represented for most women simply a rapturous sentimental union , springing perhaps from fear of male aggression or neglect but fed primarily by yearning for a partner in sensibility , a confidante in literature . |
| 15 | Including such local luminaries as Marina Van Rooy ( left ) , singer of the sadly overlooked dance single ‘ Sly One ’ , DJ Mike Pickering , graphics star Grand Central Design , novelist Trevor Miller and ( if he ever gets round to posing for the cameras ) our very own correspondent John McCready , ‘ Faces North West ’ is an exhibition by Liverpool-based photographers Mark McNulty and Solon Papadopoulos . |
| 16 | Through the village , the road into Barbondale rises sharply before contouring for a level mile along the side of Barbon Low Fell , new plantings of conifers permitting only glimpses of Barbon Manor high on the left . |
| 17 | They waved across before making for an empty table in the far corner . |
| 18 | He knocked and went in without waiting for an answer . |
| 19 | Then I went in without waiting for an invitation . |
| 20 | Apply shortly before going for a walk in the open air ( preferably the park or unpolluted country air ) . |
| 21 | I went home without waiting for the King 's thanks , because I was not sure what he would say . |
| 22 | Sitting up in her hospital bed in the Lancashire resort 's Victoria Hospital , Nicola told staff that she was trying to make her money go further by making for the seaside town . |
| 23 | He thought longingly of returning for a cup of cocoa and a slice of toast to the TARDIS . |
| 24 | Do I go back to modelling for a living ? ’ |
| 25 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 26 | Each of these companies was invited to accept a field officer , a college lecturer with a half-day per week freed up from teaching for the purpose . |
| 27 | On 2 July 1870 , the candidacy of Leopold was made known publicly to all European courts and the French government reacted immediately by asking for a clear and positive statement by the Prussian government as to their attitude to Leopold 's acceptance of the Spanish throne . |
| 28 | In other companies , however , as the production industry expanded and the films improved , it was natural that filmmakers would begin to think seriously about aiming for a share of the US market . |
| 29 | ‘ May we , Mr Connon ? ’ said Dalziel , setting off without waiting for an answer . |
| 30 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |