Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 32 | The Duchess , now heading fast for a divorce , says there WAS a vague discussion about how bad things were between herself and Andrew but ‘ it was useless ’ . |
| 33 | The wolf had cornered his prey and was now moving in for the kill . |
| 34 | He and other activists say time is now running out for the union ban , which they say will end after the election , because both Labour and Liberal Democrats have pledged to re-introduce union rights . |
| 35 | The thought of those yards of bare floorboards , pounded day in and day out by scores of muddy boots , fairly crying out for a bucket of hot suds and a good brush , filled Nelly 's heart with joy . |
| 36 | Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours . |
| 37 | Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours . |
| 38 | In front , this vision will help a bunny exactly locate its next mouthful , as well as accurately assess the character of the terrain and the location of its bolt hole when being pursued or when simply going home for a snooze . |
| 39 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | He probably worked on all his victims this way — softening them up , earning their trust and then moving in for the kill . |
| 42 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 43 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 44 | IBOA is in there working hard for the Bank Assistants . |
| 45 | The middle reach was occupied by small craft , mostly laying up for the winter , some of them already double lashed down under weather-cloths . |
| 46 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 47 | Also , portraits of individual children are far more common in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth , again arguing both for a change in fashionable attitudes , and also , may be , for a greater emotional investment in children by parents . |
| 48 | Various other tales account for the origin of the fairy godmother — one has it that , like the Italian witch Befana , a fairy godmother was actually looking endlessly for the Christ Child . |
| 49 | blindly coming up for a breather |
| 50 | 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 . |