Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 2 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 3 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 4 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 5 | Twenty or thirty thousand people were kneeling down facing westwards , patiently waiting for the final prayers of Ramadan . |
| 6 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 7 | Calera are obviously aiming for the mass market . |
| 8 | With these species , go for calmer water ( perhaps opting for the air-powered foam filter ) and consider planting natural plants in pots , or at least add a layer of Duckweed , Azolla , or other floating plant at the surface to encourage bubble nesting in Gouramis . |
| 9 | Scarlet , though not reassured by her words , was touched by her gesture until she saw that Camille was merely reaching for the crisp packet and had patted her in passing . |
| 10 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid I ca n't see much changing for the red scouse game on saturday , though . |
| 12 | When she failed to respond the French cutter opened fire with her bow chaser , hitting the superstructure of Sea Rover which by then was obviously making for the English coast . |
| 13 | No-one in the England camp was prepared to say whether there was less longing for the next tour of the Caribbean or to Pakistan , where the proposed 1996–97 series seems safely enough into the future . |
| 14 | If there is no local museum , there may be a professional archaeologist in the area , perhaps working for the local authority . |
| 15 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 16 | I 'm just looking for the biographical summary Ellis has given me . |
| 17 | Christie 's have got it and they 're just waiting for the right sale . |
| 18 | Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress . |
| 19 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 20 | As the water gets warmer , it is visualized that the structure becomes more random , thus accounting for the increased fluidity of the water at higher temperatures . |
| 21 | Children were then allocated at random to the two remaining groups of adenoidectomy or no surgery in addition to unilateral insertion of ventilation tubes until June 1986 , thus accounting for the reduced numbers at follow up in the later years . |
| 22 | TULFARRIS : Consistent last season but this term has saved best running for the all weather tracks . |
| 23 | He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her . |
| 24 | Shelley was already reaching for the suturing packs . |
| 25 | Although winter is still firmly in control in the far northern regions of the Arctic , birds are already preparing for the coming season by moulting into fresh breeding plumage . |
| 26 | Early bird catches worm : there are two programs already shipping for the still-unavailable Microsoft Windows NT-run Alpha AXP , Digital Equipment Corp says . |
| 27 | As in the rest of Europe , breeders are now looking for young stock with high genetic potential and are no longer settling for the fancy animal with a borderline production pedigree . |
| 28 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 29 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |
| 30 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |