Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is always so much to do around the boat in the way of maintenance , cleaning , taking stores , fuelling or just shopping for domestic needs that strict self discipline must be imposed to keep revenue work in the forefront . |
| 2 | From simple pastimes such as hiking in the company of qualified guides , to tennis , to golf , riding , fishing , rafting , mountain biking and even paragliding for the adventurous , Saalbach-Hinterglemm has it all . |
| 3 | More typically , the individual child stands at the teacher 's desk , muttering or stentoriously chanting for a few minutes , until checked by the ticking of a card which is slipped into the reading book at the page he or she has reached , or is expected to reach " by next time " . |
| 4 | Jack watched the guard dialling and then waiting for a nerve-stretching length of time . |
| 5 | It was a calm , simple interrogative , inviting but not pleading for a continuation . |
| 6 | That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for . |
| 7 | And so to take examples among longer poems a new kind of satire , Dryden 's Absalom and Achitophel , is in fact a mock-epic , attacking and yet leaning for support upon Milton 's Paradise Lost ; even the extremely violent novelty of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land reminds us of a Renaissance or Arthurian version of its text , which is rarely present on the surface but against which the poem reverberates and resounds most deeply . |
| 8 | The rush comes on in five minutes , lasts for an hour , and you 're buzzin' and still going for hours . ’ |