Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 2 | There were also two French anthropologists , a raggedly effete group of Dutch and American missionaries , from opposing Christian denominations politely vying for the Toraja 's attentions , and the splendid Werner Meyer , looking like the Cheshire Cat in safari costume . |
| 3 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 4 | I 'm just investigating for the company er going onto radio . |
| 5 | Detectives in Cheltenham , who 're still looking for the milkman 's attackers , say they understand his decision . |
| 6 | Detectives in Cheltenham , who 're still looking for the milkman 's attackers , say they understand his decision . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the receiver is still waiting for the club 's chairman , Samesh Kumar , and his two brothers to resign from Birmingham 's board of directors . |
| 9 | A portrait of a fat and overpowering Sir John is still at the house today and , even allowing for the artist 's flattery of his patron , this is a face you would not trust . |
| 10 | Bonn is a handsome town but , far as it is from the historic centres of German power , it seems an odd choice for a capital , even allowing for the Allies ' post-war policy of de-centralisation . |
| 11 | This would be sufficient to guarantee that the public were not indirectly paying for the corporation 's rehabilitation . |
| 12 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 13 | In the second of her reports on the build-up to the show , Harriet Ryley joins two of the exhibitors anxiously waiting for a year 's work to come to fruition . |
| 14 | Cos you 're actually preparing for the credits bef the year , the academic year before are n't you ? |
| 15 | Although Israel had to obey the laws in blind trust ( when they chose to do so at all ) , we can see how those laws were actually working for the nation 's health and wellbeing . |