Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 2 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 3 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 4 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 5 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 6 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 7 | I do find that most people who come out here on short contracts are only looking for a paid holiday . |
| 8 | As we have said , couples are engaged in a kind of dance , moving towards each other and then drawing apart , constantly searching for a comfortable balance in their relationship . |
| 9 | This is an expanding market of course and potential sponsors are constantly searching for an appropriate product on which they can lavish their money . |
| 10 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 11 | Perhaps going for a moonlit swim before making love under the stars . |
| 12 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 13 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 14 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 15 | Twenty or thirty thousand people were kneeling down facing westwards , patiently waiting for the final prayers of Ramadan . |
| 16 | It can be interpreted more narrowly as merely calling for an incidental adjustment in the form of an annotation of the present birth register . |
| 17 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 18 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 19 | Calera are obviously aiming for the mass market . |
| 20 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 21 | With these species , go for calmer water ( perhaps opting for the air-powered foam filter ) and consider planting natural plants in pots , or at least add a layer of Duckweed , Azolla , or other floating plant at the surface to encourage bubble nesting in Gouramis . |
| 22 | When a pupil came in asking for a special book , he would rush and find it before Mr Crangle . |
| 23 | Scarlet , though not reassured by her words , was touched by her gesture until she saw that Camille was merely reaching for the crisp packet and had patted her in passing . |
| 24 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid I ca n't see much changing for the red scouse game on saturday , though . |
| 26 | The driver was obviously preparing for a grand-prix start . |
| 27 | Jamila said nothing and Helen was eager to talk about Charlie , a subject on which she was obviously preparing for an advanced degree . |
| 28 | When she failed to respond the French cutter opened fire with her bow chaser , hitting the superstructure of Sea Rover which by then was obviously making for the English coast . |
| 29 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |
| 30 | No-one in the England camp was prepared to say whether there was less longing for the next tour of the Caribbean or to Pakistan , where the proposed 1996–97 series seems safely enough into the future . |