Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 2 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 3 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
| 4 | A snowfall the previous night , however , had covered the tracks of Graham Little and A. Baker , who had climbed it the day before — also singing its praises for the deep caves and icicles . |
| 5 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 6 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 7 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 8 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 9 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 10 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 11 | Containing his designs for the perpetual-motion helicopter . |
| 12 | Rather than risk a humiliating defeat — and with it the end of presidential aspirations — Gore , and other senior Democrats , were thought to be reserving their challenges for the 1996 contest . |
| 13 | The resources are allocated periodically at a review meeting which is preceded by individual project leaders assessing their own progress and estimating their needs for the next period . |
| 14 | The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time . |
| 15 | ‘ Acid ! ’ he cried after consulting his notes for the one hundred and thirty-ninth time . |
| 16 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 17 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 18 | As they clustered at the door , preparing their faces for the raw air , she still sensed those eyes burning into her . |
| 19 | Without autonomous change in tastes , or in technological possibilities , or in the availability of resources , no one can have any interest in altering his plans for the succeeding period . |
| 20 | She found she was straining her ears for the musical clang of the town church bells . |
| 21 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 22 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 23 | Outlining his proposals for the 1992/3 season , the Soc . |
| 24 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 25 | We crowded round the table , straining our ears for the magic sounds , while Robert adjusted the cat 's whisker . |
| 26 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 27 | I think you might do better to live with him for a while , before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years . |
| 28 | We discuss and enjoy celebrating the seasonal festivals such at Christmas , Easter and Harvest , when we join with the rest of the Junior School in bringing our gifts for the sick , and those in need in the neighbourhood of the School . |
| 29 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 30 | It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time . |