Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 2 | Young or old , going out or staying home for the evening , a glass of Scotch sets the scene , complements the mood , ensures complete enjoyment … never intrusive , always compatible … |
| 3 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 4 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 5 | Mortgages hit family incomes more directly and forcibly than paying more for the Volkswagen or Sony video recorder which would be among the potentially inflationary effects of devaluation . |
| 6 | Opening the weather door 360 feet up and stepping out for the final 44 feet outside is , he says without particular emphasis , ‘ dramatic ’ . |
| 7 | This is the beginning of the classic route to follow on a walking tour of Zurich , starting from the main railway station through the sophisticated poise of the Bahnhofstrasse and branching off for the Lindenhof . |
| 8 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ said a high tenor voice , soft and mild in surprise , and apologising even for the surprise , ‘ but we do n't normally use this door , and especially at night . |
| 10 | And appearing only for the defence has always seemed too easy an option . |
| 11 | Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 12 | Once the veneer of hunt balls and dressing up for the occasion is stripped away all you have left is a very cruel activity which is a disgrace to those of us who live in the modern world . |
| 13 | Outside the dark woods and fields were silent as if waiting patiently for the approach of winter . |
| 14 | This is the kind of question which has no answer , since no difference between commitment and rhetoric will be discernable until refugees are faced with a real choice between some kind of a settlement falling short of the ideal and holding out for the ideal itself . |
| 15 | Shareware libraries provide you with a program on disk for a ‘ nominal ’ sum — they are providing the program for free , and charging only for the disk , duplicating and administration , all of which includes a small amount of profit , I suppose . |
| 16 | And doing so for the goods . |
| 17 | He was pressing hard on the button and standing patiently for the door to open . |
| 18 | It did n't frighten her ; she merely disliked the physical act of getting on a plane and sitting there for the duration of the journey . |
| 19 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 20 | It may be poetic irony , but I was attending a convention in Hong Kong and working resolutely for the cigarette manufacturers at the time of my infarct . |
| 21 | There will be two age groupings , 10–13 and 14–18 , both working around the same theme , but coming together for the mass and social . |
| 22 | It was the feeling he got while watching out for the bookies when the police were in the area . |
| 23 | Increasingly , however , the professionals concerned are finding ways in which they can do their own jobs properly , while working together for the child 's benefit . |
| 24 | I got out to the end of the runway first , applied my brakes and did my run-up and magneto checks , whilst waiting impatiently for the oil temperature to rise to the required degree . |
| 25 | The Bohemians thought of the halls as catering essentially for the masses but they were delighted that they could take their place beside them as part of what Vachel Lindsay was to call ‘ a jocular army ’ . |
| 26 | When zooming in for the kill , or performing a lightning strike , they ignore the tail end of the body and aim straight for the eyes . |
| 27 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 28 | Though working primarily for the BBC world service the monitoring team also provide news as a commercial agency and are under pressure to be first with the major stories . |