Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 , it opened up to the market , competing largely for the architecture and installation of PABX voice networks . |
| 2 | Concurrent reading reduced the rate of tapping more for the right than for the left finger . |
| 3 | They came past him at a run , three of them , two heading straight for the room that Pope had indicated on the floor plan . |
| 4 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational . |
| 6 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 7 | Which was worse — staying here for the night or going back with him to the hotel ? |
| 8 | Enjoyment obviously does derive from performing successfully for the side but being determined to enjoy the occasion , be it a wet Northampton Monday or a NatWest Final , should n't be reliant solely on personal success . |
| 9 | There will be two age groupings , 10–13 and 14–18 , both working around the same theme , but coming together for the mass and social . |
| 10 | Andrew 's coming home for the weekend so I thought it would be nice to have a drinks party . |
| 11 | We were talking about Andrew coming home for the weekend and having the Bunkers round for drinks . |
| 12 | He tossed the book aside and swung his legs off the bed , reaching underneath for the flashlight that he always kept handy . |
| 13 | ‘ Stop ! ’ he shouted , reaching again for the child and closing his red-hot eye . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ Our position is that we will not be making public statements about who we may or may not be putting forward for the mayor and deputy mayor 's position . ’ |
| 15 | John Thaw 's Inspector has lately become virtually paralysed by his pain and disgust , and his psychological travails have tended to hijack the plots — I find myself watching mainly for the architecture and the music . |