Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that the hammer or the bullet is pressing against its target for a period , perhaps about a hundredth of a second , which is very long compared with the time which is required to conduct the energy away from the point of impact in the form of waves of sound or stress . |
| 2 | Mansell dominated the opening qualifying in his Canon-Williams-Renault for the tough 81-lap Adelaide street circuit race , where his 1986 title hopes were wrecked by a tyre blow-out . |
| 3 | The Tokyo regulatory exchange also barred the offending companies from trading on its floor for a period of two days , and the City of Tokyo was reported to have withdrawn some commission work from them . |
| 4 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 5 | What is the point of only taking what you need and looking after your resources for the future , if they are simply going to be swiped by somebody else ? |
| 6 | Nell pumped up the air , constricting the blood supply , then bled it out again , listening with her stethoscope for the returning pulse . |
| 7 | Despite living with her mother for the past eight years , she saw her foster parents every other weekend and went on holidays with them . |
| 8 | Jean de Vaubrun rode to Edinburgh from France in the autumn of 1792 [ or possibly 1793 ] , never pausing in his search for the woman he loved . |
| 9 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 10 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 11 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 12 | Rachel was hunting in her bag for a twenty-dollar bill . |
| 13 | However , this season he has been nothing like as unequivocal in the tackle and , dating from his display for the Barbarians versus the Wallabies , he was patently losing ground with the powers that be . |
| 14 | He held out his hand , and she hesitated a moment , before searching in her bag for the disks . |
| 15 | I spent some time every day looking after her , and the rest of the time with my cousins , listening to their plans for the future . |
| 16 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 17 | Applications must be processed Assuming that the company requires a range of different skills , the applications must be divided into groups according to their suitability for the different posts Some applicants may appear in more than one group , in which case some account will need to be taken of their preferences Managers involved in the selection process must choose those to be invited for initial interview . |
| 18 | This morning , having forced herself to her study , still wearing her dressing-gown and clutching a second cup of coffee as if it were attached to a lifeline , she began searching among her papers for the output of the previous day . |
| 19 | ‘ But an army mustered for war would overrun friend and enemy alike , ’ Cormac of Atholl had said , ‘ And Earl Siward has allies — has n't he ? — to placate with land when this is all over , and rivals who would be better off settled in Lothian than snapping at his heels for a bigger share of Northumbria . ’ |
| 20 | He went on looking at his hands for a moment . |
| 21 | She did n't know whether to smile back or not , and she wondered what that expression had meant , and what had been going through his head for the last few miles . |
| 22 | The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train . |
| 23 | He was expounding a Sura , one of the parable-like stories of the Koran , extracting from it lessons for the faithful . |
| 24 | Where she might be he could not imagine and the gap between them seemed perceptibly to widen as he sat waiting in his car for a doleful hour of encroaching twilight . |
| 25 | She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in . |
| 26 | Farmer/engineer Mr David Bliss took two prizes back to Harleston , with top spot going to his modifications for a Kongskilde 300 sucker-blower . |
| 27 | The doctor gave her a puzzled look , withdrawing the light he was flashing into her eyes for a moment . |
| 28 | Do you f you you feel that erm present government , erm do you feel that erm the other political parties what they 're erm suggesting with their policies for the inner cites , do you think they 're any better ? |
| 29 | After struggling with her composure for a moment , Paige began gathering up the odd assortment of utensils they had used . |
| 30 | Fleetwood 's powers thus lapsed , and Blackpool retained control over the line , bringing with it responsibility for the track and the roadway up to 18″ on either side . |