Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's he 's a quick nimble defender Speedy was just hanging hanging on waiting for the ball to be played into him and I must confess I did n't really see anything afterwards I mean well if you look at that that does n't seem anything untoward does it ? |
| 2 | Will the Salters ' chemistry A-level syllabus form a reasonable basis for those students going on to read for a chemistry degree at university or polytechnic ? |
| 3 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 4 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 5 | I actually started with eng civil engineer , going round looking for the camp site and then we did tramp the hills . |
| 6 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 7 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 8 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 9 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 10 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 11 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 12 | Our porn challenges the received myths about our love-making , as Gillian Rodgerson pointed out when she argued that lesbians need to produce their own because ‘ then the myth that all lesbian sex is two women lounging around waiting for a man to join them , might finally be exploded . ’ |