Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's awful , sir , not eating much for three days . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although Doodlebug breaks no new ground and may not prove challenging enough for hardened players , it 's still a neat little platformer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 12 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 13 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 14 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 15 | Andrew Thomas , who has now replaced Phllips as Neath 's first-choice hooker , supplemented his work in the tight by galloping over for two tries . |
| 16 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 17 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 18 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 19 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 20 | Mr Brazier and his senior staff , including deputy head chef Kevin Glasby ( above ) and senior sous chef Nick Bryan , worked virtually around the clock , pausing only for three hours sleep before starting again at 5am . |
| 21 | There 's , to be clear about it , that it 's completely confidential , that their looking only for particular words that are used in different parts of the country and in different locations . |
| 22 | Where there are several similar teams meeting separately for identical purposes publish the comparative costs of the respective meetings and again insist that these are halved |
| 23 | My own opinion , however , is that now that the returns on bank savings have plummeted , investors will be searching desperately for new avenues of investment and shares and property will certainly be high on the list . |
| 24 | It is looking desperately for overseas orders to bolster a declining workload in the UK . |
| 25 | This is yet another reason why we must get to the heart of the problem by controlling consumption , rather than searching hopefully for grand solutions . |
| 26 | This is yet another reason why we must get to the heart of the problem by controlling consumption , rather than searching hopefully for grand solutions . |
| 27 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 28 | Applying those considerations to the present case , their Lordships are of the view that since the plaintiff was well aware that the defendants would be acting also for other vendors of comparable properties and in so doing would receive confidential information from those other vendors , the agency contract between the plaintiff and the defendants can not have included either ( a ) a term requiring the defendants to disclose such confidential information to the plaintiff or ( b ) a term precluding the defendants acting for rival vendors or ( c ) a term precluding the defendants from seeking to earn commission on the sale of the property of a rival vendor . |
| 29 | This refers to concentrating on and looking out for specific details in the world around you . |
| 30 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |