Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 3 | Headlines like RAPIST OF 16 WAS LIKE A VULTURE GOING IN FOR THE KILL and TOMBSTONE RAPIST LIKE A VULTURE ? couple of popular dailies , but the first was from The Times and the second from the Sun . |
| 4 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 5 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 6 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 7 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 8 | The old house creaked in its joints like an old dog settling down for the night . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 10 | I am much , much more concerned about her voice lasting out for the evening . |
| 11 | It was of a man reaching out for the moon , crying ‘ I want , I want . ’ |
| 12 | I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year . |
| 13 | The hand reaching out for the bell had fallen slackly over the edge of the bed . |
| 14 | Ward was on his feet in a flash , his gloved right hand reaching out for the other 's arm . |
| 15 | can we put can we put problem solving in for the moment ? |
| 16 | Of course , Preston did not spend all his time looking out for the holes . |
| 17 | A predator dashing in for the kill has no time to assess the minute details of the eyes to detect whether they are real or false . |
| 18 | A hunting shark closing in for the kill homes in on the body electricity given off by its victim . |
| 19 | A very important time coming up for the club , some very important games , no more important to people in this area than the game at Swindon on Tuesday night , But then away to Middlesborough , home to West Ham , still something to play for for Oxford United this season if the results keep going their way ? |
| 20 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |