Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] for [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when the women stop pleading for peace and resort instead to the threat of killing themselves it the fight proceeds , it is as if the currents of sexuality and violence , circulating between the men in a way which sustains sexual difference between male and female , are suddenly switched off ; the threatened self-annihilation of the women is also a breaking of the circuit . |
| 2 | Separate maintenance contracts , much longer than the minimum term of the lease , mean paying for maintenance after the machine has been returned . |
| 3 | I remember coming for tea and er the table was where it is now I do n't know whether it was |
| 4 | Continue rolling for damage until you fail to slay the target or run out of ranks , deducting -1 from the strength for each rank already pierced . |
| 5 | Continue rolling for damage until you fail to slay the target or run out of ranks . |
| 6 | Triple glazing for warmth and less noise . |
| 7 | Here the needing and the daring are situated in time as realities , and as such they must necessarily be conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to do and turn , as a need calling for action and an exercising of audacity leading to the achieving of a result . |