Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 2 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 3 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 4 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 5 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 6 | Now I 'm going to look properly for loose stones . |
| 7 | We 're going to live here for good , Shelley . |
| 8 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 9 | And it and we had to collect twenty cans and then when you 've collected twenty cans that is enough for one trees one tree and it is gon na be planted in Sherwood Forest and it 's going to stay there for hundreds and hundreds of years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to make up for all those nights apart . |
| 11 | Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time , but Karajan was well ahead of the game . |
| 12 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 13 | Are you coming to sit down for this meal ? |
| 14 | Gooch , having exceeded the mighty Hammond 's Test aggregate , edged into his stumps ; Hick messed up an attempted pull against Waqar ; Smith was held brilliantly by the substitute fielder at third slip ( Latif also happens to be the deputy wicketkeeper ) ; and on the stroke of tea Stewart , having batted imperiously for four hours , fell disappointingly to a catch at cover off slow left-armer Mujtaba . |
| 15 | Having looked unsuccessfully for such a bird house , I would like to find the name of a stockist . |
| 16 | the desolate home of Miss Havisham for which CD 's original was the picturesque old Elizabethan mansion in Rochester known as Restoration House in honour of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , the king having lodged there for one night en route for London . |
| 17 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 18 | ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’ |
| 19 | The company was less a victim of the recession than of the peace dividend , having geared up for military orders which failed to materialise . |
| 20 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 21 | The weather is not kind , having rained steadily for most of the week , fully endorsing everyone 's suspicions that the Sennybridge hills conjure up their own unique climate . |
| 22 | Tozer , too , is ex-IBM , having worked there for 13 years . |
| 23 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 24 | I think the whole idea of us managing to stick together for seven months , you know th the fact that we did , bar a few exceptions , you know it 's it 's amazing . |
| 25 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 26 | After managing to hold out for several months against Paul 's pressurising , she had agreed to the engagement only a few days before this trip . |
| 27 | LIFE IN THE SHADOWS : Sarah is preparing to go out for another night 's work ( left ) and on the streets , where she is wary of police |
| 28 | It is worth reiterating to look out for cosmetic ranges labelled ‘ non-comedogenic ’ . |
| 29 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 30 | Probably trying to get ahead for that , one of those . |