Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 2 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 3 | ‘ You know the heat is off , Ruth , ’ he told her , his eyes catching hers and holding them for a few seconds . |
| 4 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 5 | Do n't you think you can manage to stop needling me for a few hours ? ’ |
| 6 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 7 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 8 | Molloy and Carroll suggest that while Access courses equip students with whatever is necessary for the completion of a degree course they may be less successful in preparing them for the higher levels of academic performance . |
| 9 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 10 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 11 | His face was absorbed , and Hilary stood quietly , studying him for a few moments . |
| 12 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 13 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |
| 14 | Annie stood watching him for a few moments . |
| 15 | With an embarrassed shrug , she leaned more comfortably against the seat , and , watching him for a few moments , asked curiously , ‘ Why did you invite me today ? ’ |
| 16 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 17 | No what I 'm say what I 'm saying is that that leaving it for a few months probably is n't going to do you any harm . |
| 18 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |