Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Filling in perfectly for the missing men , women filled in the gaps in such important industries as agriculture , to provide food , weapons and munitions manufacturing , and railways and transport . |
| 2 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
| 4 | It would be a record label for their own music and for the struggling artists just waiting out there for the benevolent despotism of the Beatles to pluck them from obscurity . |
| 5 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 6 | This was going too far for the established church in both Rome and Nicaragua , with the result that the Pope called for their resignation . |
| 7 | It started as a minor incident involving a petrol tanker , but then other vehicles travelling too fast for the foggy conditions found they counld n't stop in time and crashed as well . |
| 8 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 9 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 10 | This section provides a step-by-step guide for users setting up Offline for the first time . |
| 11 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |