Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They spend months on end continuously on the wing , feeding by catching insects in mid-air , mating by coupling high in the sky and tumbling downwards interlocked for hundreds of feet , and presumably even sleeping on the wing . |
| 2 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 3 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 4 | We can and do sometimes charge for this time , but where there are significant PR benefits for the Garden and its activities , and companies are not willing to pay , we do not charge . |
| 5 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 6 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 7 | Today 's factory farms , which dispense with straw for bedding and have little use for natural manure , turn out thousands of litres of slurry — dung and urine mixed with water — every day . |