Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so rugged as they once were , America 's oilmen spend more of their time moaning to politicians and colleagues at seminars about imports , environmentalists and taxes , and less drilling for oil and gas . |
| 2 | Two days later , after a peaceful voyage , we disembarked at Calais — a dreadful place , England 's last foothold in France , nothing more than a glorified fortress packed with men-at-arms and archers , who staggered the streets in their boiled leather jerkins , drinking in the many ale houses and generally looking for trouble . |
| 3 | " We will open the gates and rush out upon the princess 's men ; if we must die , at least we will die bravely , and not begging for help from an old black scavenger . " |
| 4 | He was tearing Germany apart and already preparing for war , the Jews being his first victims . |
| 5 | Then away , he was away ; down , down , down , fleeing from the path of fortune , scared and shaking , hurtling through the muddy clay pools and scarcely pausing for breath . |
| 6 | Why did he feel as though he had just run his sword through the heart of something small and desperately struggling for survival ? |
| 7 | I found it difficult to follow their chatter ( you know old Shallot , nosy as hell and always looking for mischief ) , but they seemed most concerned about Lady Francesca 's health . |
| 8 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 9 | 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 . |