Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 2 | This was the day before they voted in favour of formally calling for the return of Charles II to the throne of England . |
| 3 | So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful . |
| 4 | Instead of immediately heading for the ocean , as they are genetically programmed to do , they headed inland , and all perished . |
| 5 | Yet in bravely opting for the high-risk , high-competition approach , the government has left itself an out . |
| 6 | Thus if the buyer goes into liquidation before fully paying for the goods , any of the goods which have not been re-sold by the buyer and which remain unmixed will belong to the seller . |
| 7 | If I happen to remember such details when there 's a beautiful doll on the paying end , Hinkle is right in there rooting for the firm . |
| 8 | have a checklist ready by the telephone for any information you will need before definitely applying for the job . |
| 9 | John returned a few years later , but he was now an old man and the moving spirit seems to have been his daughter Virginia , who carried out experiments in the breeding of silkworms at Little Gidding for the benefit of the American colony . |
| 10 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 11 | Artegall fights as a skilful mariner controls his vessel in a storm ( V , XII , 18 ) and defeats the giant by carefully watching for the right advantage . |