Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ballesteros appeared on the threshold of challenging once again for Major honours . |
| 2 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |
| 3 | The Galway International winner has n't given up hope of bidding yet again for one of the few big Irish rallies to elude him but describes his chances of being on the start line on Good Friday as ‘ remote ’ . |
| 4 | Yeah you can s you can imagine walking round here for fourteen months , and then one w one back of one walkway looks like another walkway . |
| 5 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 6 | Hallstein 's Commission was widely blamed for provoking the 1965 crisis by pushing too hard for more powers for itself and the Parliament . |
| 7 | it 's going on now for seven weeks |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 9 | The modern tournament is now won by a side carefully garnering its resources for two or three vital games — witness Italy in 1982 — rather than by going all out for emphatic victories in each match . |
| 10 | THE Antrim and East Antrim encounter was a hard fought game with both teams going all out for vital points , particularly East Antrim , struggling at the bottom of the league . |
| 11 | He went on : ‘ We 're going to have a jolly good time after waiting so long for this . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't mind going out there for two or three months at a time but not permanently . ’ |
| 13 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 14 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |
| 15 | But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers . |
| 16 | Tickets had not been going too well for this event before the European Indoor , but afterwards Cosford was soon sold out . |
| 17 | But that might be going too far for academic professionals , however radical their stances . |
| 18 | Its taken a rush ‘ nose job ’ , a dubious penalty , an unlucky bounce on Newsomes knee and a short back header cuased by Campbell pulling kelly back for 10 yards for those people to score goals . |
| 19 | I think you deserve the full 40 lashes for sticking up fiercely for liberal values — I 'm always liberal with my whip ! |
| 20 | So er this this one is setting everybody up for May and starting the the process for erm for June the the Euros and well to a certain extent we 're building up already for any any editor content . |
| 21 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 22 | At the end of June , Sir Geoffrey made his own last vain attempt to reassure Hong Kong , flying in briefly for one of the most uncomfortable few days of his long diplomatic career . |
| 23 | Fletcher is worried that half of England 's winter tour party will be at home for little more than a week before flying off again for pre-season trips with their counties . |
| 24 | I doubt the other old thing will be moving back there for many a long month . ’ |
| 25 | He was doing so well for three months . |
| 26 | On the other hand there was a divergence between staff judgements of need and the judgements of those discharged from their care , with staff opting more often for supported accommodation and the dischargees for independent living . |
| 27 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 28 | Remember that you are reading not only for historical information but also to increase your historical understanding . |
| 29 | " I always knew I 'd be in a book one day , " she said , reaching once more for Debonair , " and now , John , that dream has been realized . " |
| 30 | It was submitted A that the judge in taking a multiplier of seven to compensate the ten point four years loss , was taking a figure that was too low and B , that in applying a substantial discount for other imponderables he was discounting twice over for early death . |