Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Little talk with Jesus ? ’ he said , and , halfway through reaching for a tube of tomato purée , he closed his eyes and froze solid as if overtaken by a large quantity of molten lava . |
| 2 | Mildred had bought a mask which featured hair made from uncarded sheep 's wool , and which had produced moths only after hanging for a year on the landing of her staircase . |
| 3 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 4 | ‘ He is very much in contention for a first-team place , although he may not think so after playing for the juniors . |
| 5 | Retribution was not long in coming for the Partick side who , last Saturday , lost four goals for the second league game in succession . |
| 6 | The help given in the first period of Addenbrookes , when the plaintiff had her own room and was for much of the time still in a coma , was clearly signifidant , significant , not only in caring for the plaintiff 's physical needs , but in giving the support and encouragement which no doubt contributed greatly to the plaintiff 's emergence from that coma . |
| 7 | She always knocked and then walked in without waiting for a response . |
| 8 | He knocked and went in without waiting for an answer . |
| 9 | Then I went in without waiting for an invitation . |
| 10 | ‘ Shall I cut it ? ’ he said , and sliced eagerly in without waiting for an answer . |
| 11 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 12 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 13 | She found her bearings conventionally enough by working for the US information office in Bogota , Colombia , and then in Rio di Janeiro where she acquired a lifelong love for Brazil . |
| 14 | It is only by preparing for the future that Lothian Highways staff can ensure that there will be a successful future . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it is not certainly fictitious , for the paucity of English sources on the later years of Cnut 's reign makes their silence inconclusive , and Robert may have been moved not only by feeling for the æthelings and his apparent friendship for their sister Godgifu 's husband , Count Dreux of the Vexin , but also by memories of his rift with Cnut 's sister Estrith . |
| 16 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
| 17 | A week away from leaving for the European leg of the current Michael Jackson tour , she was enjoying a two day break in what sounded like a hectic rehearsal schedule . |
| 18 | There 's been no keeping Joanna Trollope away from filming for The Rector 's Wife … most of it 's taken place not far from the author 's home near Cirencester . |
| 19 | Apply shortly before going for a walk in the open air ( preferably the park or unpolluted country air ) . |
| 20 | Because one 's involved whether one likes it or not , just by caring for the person concerned . ’ |
| 21 | Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow . |
| 22 | Most frequently , under the two-party system , all these requirements are met easily by sending for the Leader of the Opposition or of the majority party , as the case may be , upon the fall of government-as happened , for example , in 1945 and 1951 . |
| 23 | It is rather like looking for a single straw in a haystack . |
| 24 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 25 | Wheel clamps are n't on the list yet , but it 's still worth asking for a few quid off your annual premium . |
| 26 | He thought longingly of returning for a cup of cocoa and a slice of toast to the TARDIS . |
| 27 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 28 | After an admirable talk by Geoffrey in the morning , we were all given the afternoon off before reassembling for a hula-hula party in the evening ( when off duty , staid Scottish lawyers are inclined to let their hair down even further than their English counterparts ) . |
| 29 | Richard is said to have favoured the axe as a hand-to-hand weapon , and a contemporary poem records that he had one made specially before departing for the Holy Land : |
| 30 | ‘ May we , Mr Connon ? ’ said Dalziel , setting off without waiting for an answer . |