Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Comdex/Spring in Chicago last week was for all intents and purposes a Microsoft Corp event , all the energy and sparkle belonging to the Windows World side of the house , OS/2 being a footsore also-ran and Unix not even showing up for the race . |
| 32 | A MOTHER told how getting up for a drink of milk saved her family from a house fire . |
| 33 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |
| 34 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 35 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 36 | The middle reach was occupied by small craft , mostly laying up for the winter , some of them already double lashed down under weather-cloths . |
| 37 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 38 | blindly coming up for a breather |
| 39 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |