Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always knocked and then walked in without waiting for a response . |
| 2 | After an admirable talk by Geoffrey in the morning , we were all given the afternoon off before reassembling for a hula-hula party in the evening ( when off duty , staid Scottish lawyers are inclined to let their hair down even further than their English counterparts ) . |
| 3 | Professor Herbert argues that such an arrangement is neither cold-blooded nor out of keeping for a family . |
| 4 | Alison recounted : ‘ I started off at Stirling when I was seven , played until I was 12 and helped out with coaching for a year after that . |
| 5 | The NFFO yesterday drew back from calling for a sea and road blockade to stop the supplies of foreign fish . |
| 6 | For these reasons , and because it is so easy to change the screen size of a shot by zooming in or out without stopping for a cut , the zoom ( and the pan ) are often used by amateurs instead of a straight cut . |
| 7 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |
| 8 | Do I go back to modelling for a living ? ’ |
| 9 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |