Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Lan 's astonishment her father signalled for her to approach the altar next ; as she was the youngest she had expected to go last , but her father was clearly singling Kim out for special treatment by allowing her to precede him . |
| 2 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 3 | Roast ( 100°C/200°F , gas mark 1 ) for one hour , turning breast up for last fifteen minutes . |
| 4 | Ashley were back to winning ways , bowling Prestbury out for 120 and scoring the runs for the loss of two wickets with Steve Tyrell hitting 82no . |
| 5 | Mm , there 's a lot of people who 've erm , I mean a lot of s all the T V companies are putting programmes on for next week |
| 6 | Windows provides things like screen drivers and printer selections ; you do n't have to worry about setting things up for each package . |
| 7 | Sabatini was only setting things up for another time . |
| 8 | The American writer James Q. Wilson ( 1975 ) has claimed that a 20 per cent reduction in street robbery could be achieved simply by locking offenders up for longer . |
| 9 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |