Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for [art] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We headed off for the north-east facing slopes of La Masse , hoping to find the best snow . |
| 2 | Glumly we headed Islingtonwards for the ritual finger-wagging and fine . |
| 3 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 4 | More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday . |
| 5 | Leicester wobbled , but they hung on for the record equalling win . |
| 6 | Paul Goodman , the American anarchist writer ; Stokeley Carmichael , the 26-year-old Trinidadian-born New Yorker whose black nationalism had just triumphed within SNCC ; Laing and Cooper ; Ginsberg-whose contribution took the form of a mantra , American radical journalists John Gerassi on the Third World ; Trotskyist theoretician Ernest Mandel ; William Burroughs ; Angela Davis , the Californian activist and academic ; the Marxist historian and biographer of Trotsky , Isaac Deutscher ; the San Francisco digger , Emmett Grogan , who popped up for a fringe meeting ‘ still loaded with the sleepiness of heroin' ; and Herbert Marcuse . |
| 7 | Hucklecote made most of the early running and took the lead on six minutes , Steve Barslow converting a penalty , and they increased that lead after a quarter of an hour when Mark Halkins went over for a try following good work from Steve Hamslow . |
| 8 | He lay there for a minute scratching at the pitiful amount of hair on his chest and then he came over . |
| 9 | PROFITS reached an all time high for the Food & Agriculture Division announced by for the year ending December 31 , 1992 . |
| 10 | Despite opposition claims that the move would build a ‘ Berlin Wall ’ between the two communities , DUP and UUP councillors voted unanimously for the motion condemning Mrs Robinson for ‘ giving credibility ’ to Sinn Fein during her last visit to the city . |
| 11 | She went back into the house and I waited outside for a while enjoying the cool breeze . |
| 12 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 13 | Preston sat there for a while stroking her and then , when he was sure that she was sleeping soundly , he crossed over to the window and lifted a corner of the curtain and peered cautiously out into the street . |
| 14 | They sat there for a while feeling drained and empty . |
| 15 | I sat there for an hour stuffing my stomach and telling him exactly what had happened . |
| 16 | The Prince sat silently for a moment looking at Owen . |
| 17 | I sat quietly for a while finishing my most recent cup of coffee . |