Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 2 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 3 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 4 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 5 | and they 're only saying it for the sake of keeping going . |
| 6 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 7 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 8 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 9 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’ |
| 11 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not saving it for the Tour de France . |
| 13 | ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’ |
| 14 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 15 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 16 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not asking you for a penny . ’ |
| 19 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 20 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 21 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 22 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 23 | Not just taking me for a ride ? ’ |
| 24 | Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout . |
| 25 | Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything . |
| 26 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 27 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |
| 28 | Charlie Chaplin 's silent black and white movies captivated the world in the early part of the century … and they 're still doing it for a new generation coming through . |
| 29 | Then , of course , they 'd make me a mother figure getting up asking me for a glass of water in the middle of the night . |
| 30 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |