Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , by sticking inflexibly for instant PR , claiming all the credit for constitutional reform , and continuing to rubbish Labour , Paddy Ashdown did his own party , and the cause of constitutional reform , a disservice . |
| 2 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 3 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 4 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 5 | But it 's awful , sir , not eating much for three days . |
| 6 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 7 | The unexplained gap between the pay of 26-year-old men and women was 51 per cent allowing only for educational background and employment experience , or 38 per cent allowing also for information on job characteristics . |
| 8 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 9 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 10 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 11 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 12 | Although Doodlebug breaks no new ground and may not prove challenging enough for hardened players , it 's still a neat little platformer . |
| 13 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 14 | However , there are many new avenues opening up for qualified staff in areas which have not traditionally been associated with nursing . |
| 15 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 16 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 17 | RUUD Gullit is gearing up for next week 's European Cup final with Marseille with many Milan fans believing it will one of his last games for the Italian giants . |
| 18 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 19 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 20 | ULSTER spacers have been shy about signing up for inter-galactic travel . |
| 21 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 22 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 23 | She stayed in work until she was 29 walking out for five years with her fiance , an engineer 's blacksmith who was himself a great reader , while they saved up to marry . |
| 24 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 25 | Lancaster 's objections to the regime , however , were concerned just as much with domestic affairs : he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness , singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife , He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been ‘ wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone , in destruccioun of him and of his folk ’ , and proposed that Mortimer ‘ shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Vernon added that , as though to celebrate the anniversary , the fund raisers had turned in record figures yet again , singling out for special thanks the branches and guilds new record of over £10m . |
| 27 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 28 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 29 | Similarly , organisations of adults with disabilities , such as the British Council of Organisations for Disabled People , are pressing hard for better quality , integrated education , given their own personal experiences of segregated provision . |
| 30 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |