Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 2 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 3 | Instead of offloading underperforming RISC machines on its customers — thousands of which were crying out for more power — it rushed to boost the power of its obsolete 16-bit processor by every tweak possible , and virtually gave the things away . |
| 4 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 5 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 6 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 7 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 8 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 9 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 10 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 11 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 12 | The Imperial 's chef , at last let loose in his own kitchen , was making up for lost honour . |
| 13 | Seems Novell Inc missed a first call of the open systems boat back in its dim and distant proprietary past , when Reading , Berkshire-based X/Open Co Ltd was casting around for inter face technology that could tie personal computer networks into open systems . |