Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 2 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 3 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 4 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 5 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 6 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 7 | ‘ Ghosts ’ at least demonstrates that the music does n't have to have the speed of a cocaine-snorting cheetah to create the energy and is worth checking out for this alone . |
| 8 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 10 | On reflection , he rather regrets that they were n't looking out for each other . |
| 11 | he must be maybe he 's looking out for more work , I admire |
| 12 | he wheedled , looking around for any likely victims . |
| 13 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 14 | Throughout the entire 50 minutes of grilling on low heat , Judd Lander sits nervously , looking around for more people to ask questions . |
| 15 | She stood with it in her hand , looking about for some signs of a waiting servant . |
| 16 | He was just looking round for some quiet corner to put the case when faintly above the noise in the room he heard the doorbell ring . |
| 17 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 18 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 19 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 20 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |
| 21 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 22 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 23 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 24 | And it 's still going on for another season . |
| 25 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 26 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 27 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 28 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 29 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 30 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |