Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 3 | Headlines like RAPIST OF 16 WAS LIKE A VULTURE GOING IN FOR THE KILL and TOMBSTONE RAPIST LIKE A VULTURE ? couple of popular dailies , but the first was from The Times and the second from the Sun . |
| 4 | You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy . |
| 5 | She started going through her bag , making sure she had everything , like a woman going out for an ordinary evening . |
| 6 | It was of a man reaching out for the moon , crying ‘ I want , I want . ’ |
| 7 | A predator dashing in for the kill has no time to assess the minute details of the eyes to detect whether they are real or false . |