Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught .
2 Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead .
3 The harvest service is usually a major event in the calendar for most schools with parents contributing produce for an attractive display .
4 Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things .
5 Trotting after her , Frankie automatically rubbed his hand on his trousers before daring to reach for the gloved hand she offered .
6 This would include a sum , if necessary , for any board and lodging provided for the substitute housekeeper .
7 But if , if , if that beginning , you know , i if you 're going to go for a rich peasant economy , you 've got ta convince them that it 's , it 's their advantage and it 's gon na last .
8 Then the icy touch of the water reminded her that she had planned to cool the hock in it for Finn and the bastard was n't here ; and for a moment her towel served as a handkerchief as she mourned , and then , since she considered it degrading to weep for a faithless man , she dried her eyes and her ears and under her chin and returned with springing step to the cottage .
9 This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in .
10 Also , he was not going to accept it , he was going to look for a real motive for this murder .
11 Even if you are not going to apply for a Legal Aid franchise , membership of the panel will be important for anyone putting themselves forward as a personal injury specialist ( see Appendix 2A for the Personal Injury Panel criteria ) .
12 Few , if any voters are going to opt for a high-risk economic strategy that could result in a real cut in living standards .
13 These two alternatives can be investigated quite simply by setting the pull-out torque expression ( 5.14 ) to zero and attempting to solve for the angular frequency , W : and therefore : where H = R/V is a constant for the motor .
14 Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ?
15 ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’
16 I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone .
17 Banks wishing to apply for an offshore banking licence were required to provide capital of US$1,600,000 plus an annual fee of $20,000 .
18 for those wishing to study for the professional diploma on a full-time programme .
19 The methods described so far are suitable for popular waters where it is a case of choosing a swim and staying put for the whole session , which means you must attract fish into your swim and induce them to feed .
20 They want to be able to lend without having to search for a suitable borrower , and to get their money back quickly if their own need for liquidity changes .
21 For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market .
22 Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond .
23 Britain is failing to invest for the long term .
24 With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground .
25 Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives .
26 In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle .
27 Johnson went to the lavatory — at least , that is presumably what Boswell means when he says , ‘ having retired for a short time ’ — ; and Boswell and Monboddo engaged cordially with each other .
28 The news comes as BA is still licking its wounds from having to apologise for the dirty tricks campaign conducted against its smaller rival , Virgin Atlantic , and the early retiral of its former chairman , Lord King .
29 The autonomy of the Kurdish zone was to be strengthened , in an area expanded to include Kirkuk ; there were to be new and free elections to Kurdish councils ; the Kurds , having asked for a fair share of oil revenue , would be allotted 25–30% of the total Iraqi budget .
30 He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose .
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