Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aye , Mrs Urvill , ’ the girl said , taking out some keys and heading for the mini . |
| 2 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 3 | Then she turned and fled from the dance floor , pushing her way between the smooching couples and heading for the Ladies , a box of a room with pegs lining two walls , a flyblown mirror over a grubby cracked china sink and two cubicles . |
| 4 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 5 | Issues like food additives do concern me but I 'm just not sure whether it 's worth worrying — I usually end up following my own instincts and hoping for the best . ’ |
| 6 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 7 | It buys weapons while Iraqi arms purchases are embargoed , and while UN inspectors prowl the Iraqi desert destroying chemical weapons and looking for the places where Mr Hussein may still be trying to build nuclear ones . |
| 8 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 9 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |