Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | it 's going on now for seven weeks |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't mind going out there for two or three months at a time but not permanently . ’ |
| 6 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think you deserve the full 40 lashes for sticking up fiercely for liberal values — I 'm always liberal with my whip ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I doubt the other old thing will be moving back there for many a long month . ’ |
| 14 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 15 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 17 | We need to stop casting about fruitlessly for organizational Holy Grails and settle down to the hard work of putting our managerial hierarchies in order . |
| 18 | This was possibly the first steam working along here for some 25 years . |
| 19 | Raise the arms towards the toes , lifting the head and shoulders off the floor as far as possible without straining.Continue stretching up gently for 10 counts . |