Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 2 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 3 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 4 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 5 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 6 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 7 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 8 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 9 | THE Labour Party 's land policy paper , Planning a New Agenda , has been called partially flawed by Christopher Jonas replying to it for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 10 | He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight . |
| 11 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 12 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 13 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 14 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 15 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 16 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 17 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 18 | However , there is nothing in Law which prevents a player dropping the ball and then falling on it for a score . |
| 19 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
| 20 | He closed the door behind him , leaning against it for a moment , catching his breath . |
| 21 | She stood stroking the animal and murmuring to it for a moment longer before glancing around the hut . |
| 22 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 23 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 24 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |