Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kandinskaya licked her lips as if stalling for time ; Jezrael could see her imminence paling as she strove for greater calm . |
| 2 | Calls full of anguish , of him confessing his love for her , while imploring for time to explore his spiritual struggle . |
| 3 | The so-called " bare infinitive " will be analysed here as evoking a perfective view of the realization of an event , i.e. the image of an event as unfolding in time from its beginning to its end in the case of an action-like event or as actualizing its full lexical content at each instant of its existence in the case of a state-like one . |
| 4 | In ( 157 ) the reference seems to be to an active or working principle whose action is represented as coinciding in time with the functioning of the sewing machine . |
| 5 | Since let signifies here not intervening in some event which is already under way , it is obvious that the letting must be thought of as coinciding in time with the actualization of the other event . |
| 6 | It has been seen that the bare infinitive is used whenever the two events are represented as coinciding in time , either as two actualities ( after full verbs and auxiliary do ) or as two potentialities ( after the modal auxiliaries ) . |
| 7 | Official denials by the Argentine Foreign Office were interpreted as playing for time to avoid loss of face . |
| 8 | When processing through time , choices have to be made about how good a hypothesis looks now . |