Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 2 | Most fieldwork is simply episodic , made by an outsider moving in for a period to assess observed social behaviour . |
| 3 | The bomb-aimer operated his sight and electrically-controlled release gears from beneath the gunner , a hinged wind-balanced panel in the extreme nose opening outward for the purpose of sighting and aiming . |
| 4 | They 've suggested a meeting down there but , my point i I feel that there 's no point going down for an argument cos that 's all it 's going to be . |
| 5 | point going down for an argument . |
| 6 | Spent the afternoon watching youngest son 's team holding out for a draw while rushing to and from the car to get the latest score from Lord 's . |
| 7 | Nick Serota , director of the Tate , is at the moment coming in for a lot of criticism because he changes the displays every year . |
| 8 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 9 | Had her feelings and longings as she had lain in the grass , remembering Dick and their lovemaking , her body crying out for a repetition of the act , forged a false link in her mind ? |
| 10 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 11 | ‘ Is thoo coming in for a cup o' tea ? ’ his father invited , but George shook his head . |
| 12 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 13 | It is thus not necessary to produce an engineering drawing specifically for the purpose of showing everyone what it looks like . |
| 14 | But certainly by the end of the 17th century there was a huge concert up there at this time of the morning going on for an hour . |
| 15 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |
| 16 | There has therefore emerged , within the framework of public choice , a theory arguing specifically for the establishment of constitutional limits to the scope of governmental action . |
| 17 | The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night . |
| 18 | He went on to 58 , putting on 154 with Lloyd , the captain batting beautifully for a century to take his team out of trouble . |
| 19 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 20 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 21 | It was of a man reaching out for the moon , crying ‘ I want , I want . ’ |
| 22 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 23 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 24 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 25 | Then suddenly he seemed to sag back into his seat , his hand reaching slowly for the pen I was still holding out to him . |
| 26 | Ward was on his feet in a flash , his gloved right hand reaching out for the other 's arm . |
| 27 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
| 28 | And yet , in person , she is in no way intimidating , rushing into the hotel apologising profusely for the delay . |
| 29 | can we put can we put problem solving in for the moment ? |
| 30 | Later we drifted and found : a beach , 20ft of yellow shingle under a dozen palm trees ; a grotto more lurid than Lourdes , every glittering bowl crying out for a plaster Madonna ; a lagoon in an island 's heart reached through a rock tunnel . |