Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PALACEGATE EPISODE ended her racing for the season on a winning note yesterday . |
| 2 | However , his abiding passion for collecting recipes and formulas kept him experimenting for a further twenty years , perfecting the transfer-printing process . |
| 3 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 4 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 5 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 6 | It was in this tense situation that the Labour Party , the pacifists and the Government found themselves manoeuvring for the leadership of the growing public demand for peace . |
| 7 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 8 | Colossal close-outs kept him sprinting for the horizon . |
| 9 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 10 | Clare watched her eating for a moment . |
| 11 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |