Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she kept me hanging around for an hour and a half , which might sound like a backward step , but you have to remember she was sitting in a place of her own choice , and was taking it all in . |
| 2 | I going round for a collection too . |
| 3 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 4 | as if someone scrabbling desperately for a hold had used even the little frictional grip pressure against the vertical could give . |
| 5 | It was a little confusing to find ourselves setting off for the summits of the Viluyos barely an hour after the decision to do so . |
| 6 | He glanced over his shoulder and grinned at her , knowing she could n't catch up with him , but when he looked round he found himself heading straight for a display of fresh produce outside a delicatessen . |
| 7 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 8 | And that was for them going just for the day . |
| 9 | It will do no good at all if it leaves you fuming internally for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | Perhaps you 'd like to stick around and watch this happening because I remember you subbing once for an etching lesson . |
| 11 | Why , you going up for a Chinese ? |
| 12 | Are you going out for an evening meal , or ? |
| 13 | ‘ Are n't you going in for the Swimming Gala ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Are you staying here for the remainder of the night ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You coming in for a nightcap ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | keep you ticking over for the moment |
| 17 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 18 | I 'm not leaving you here all alone , so it 's a case of you either coming with me , or of me staying here for the rest of the night and neither of us getting any rest . |
| 19 | Oncoming carts appeared in the gloom , the drivers calling to each other , one moving over for the other . |
| 20 | In this case I usually get them running round for a while jumping , hopping , walking backwards and also get them to shout some calls . |
| 21 | She told the Liverpool inquest that on March 9 this year they had argued about her going out for a drink with some friends in the city centre . |
| 22 | Yeah , they getting away for a weekend . |
| 23 | She could just imagine him closing in for the kill . |
| 24 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 25 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 26 | John Thaw 's Inspector has lately become virtually paralysed by his pain and disgust , and his psychological travails have tended to hijack the plots — I find myself watching mainly for the architecture and the music . |
| 27 | They kept us hanging around for a while . |
| 28 | It 's not like us nipping down for a pint with the vicar ! ’ |