Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 2 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 3 | and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it |
| 4 | Believe me , I know — I have reason to know now , for while you were gone I 've tried it and am waiting even now for the blow to fall ! — that there is no future for me in the world I left behind so long ago . ’ |
| 5 | Many of the drivers are Brunel enthusiasts , but others are going along just for the ride . |
| 6 | You feel you are standing up straight for the first time in your life ; you can do anything while this feeling lasts , you can take on the world . |
| 7 | And while it 's very reassuring that schools have n't changed too much — I do n't think we want everything to change overnight — I think you could say that schools are open to the same criticism as of British industry at the moment , that they are institutions which perhaps are changing too slowly for the demands of the modern world . |
| 8 | Yesterday 's match-winning pair up front , Aberdeen 's Booth and Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson , were lining up together for the first time during the current campaign . |
| 9 | Well , I saw his van really , once when he came to pick up Billy when they were going off somewhere for the weekend . |
| 10 | The interpretation they suggest is that the compositions of the trusts were changing too quickly for the adjustment procedure . |
| 11 | he is just like me he 's brain is going too fast for the pencil |
| 12 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 13 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 14 | This was going too far for the established church in both Rome and Nicaragua , with the result that the Pope called for their resignation . |
| 15 | I told myself I was waiting out there for the signals to let me know David and Leon had gone to bed , lights switched off at their bedroom windows , at least some movement of the curtains . |
| 16 | I d I could only glanced at it as I drove past cos the traffic was moving fairly quickly for the lights there you know . |
| 17 | By January 1856 he was asking not only for the relaxation of censorship but also for a constitution , various political amnesties , the gradual emancipation of the serfs , non-interference in the domestic affairs of European nations and assistance for national-liberation movements . |
| 18 | Recording a verdict of accidental death deputy coroner Andrew Tweddle said evidence showed Mr Still was travelling too quickly for the road conditions . |