Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easy to get carried away if someone is bidding against you for a particular fish . |
| 2 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 3 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 4 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 6 | About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house . |
| 7 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 8 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 9 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 10 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 11 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 13 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 14 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 15 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he can atone for his sins by waiting on you for a few days , ’ Jack said laughingly . |
| 17 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |
| 18 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 19 | Maria 's sister is ill , so she will be staying with her for a few days . ’ |
| 20 | Erm Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |
| 21 | Erm , Sandy 's staying with her for a few days . |
| 22 | ‘ Lady Isabel will be staying with us for a short time . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's been staying with us for a few days . ’ |
| 24 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 25 | ‘ So what have you been doing with yourself for the last five years ? ’ he asked , leaning back in his chair and looking quizzically at her . |
| 26 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 27 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 28 | In October 1869 he wrote to Rohde : a whole lot of aesthetic problems and answers have been bubbling inside me for the last few years … of course , Wagner is in a very pregnant sense beneficial , especially as , an example incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics … ; and a few months later he was proclaiming to another correspondent a " marvellously new and changed … |
| 29 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 30 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |