Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 2 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 3 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 4 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 5 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 6 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 8 | ‘ Well ’ — she straightened her broad shoulders ‘ perhaps everything 's turning out for the best then . |
| 9 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 10 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 11 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 12 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 13 | Limbering up for the ensuing psychological/physical endurance marathon on the groove-locked crawling king snake blues of ‘ Lonely ’ , from there on in there 's no turning back as Rollins , Andrew , Sim Cain , and Chris Haskett seriously screw on the power , tail-shunting their hysterically intense cover of the Pink Fairies ' ‘ Do It ’ in the process . |
| 14 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 15 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 16 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 17 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 18 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 19 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 20 | Nobody , though , captured the Bull Dog spirit like quarter-miler Derek Redmond , hopping along for the final 200 metres with a busted hamstring and his dad 's help . |
| 21 | I am writing this quickly on my return ( Tuesday evening ) from London , prior to setting off for the European rural conference in Scotland . |
| 22 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 23 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 24 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |