Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
| 2 | Lamb , dropped by Dujon on 30 , played splendidly thereafter , putting on 172 for the fourth wicket with Robin Smith , reaching his tenth Test century and fifth against West Indies , and finally falling for 132 . |
| 3 | Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape . |
| 4 | At PIL , currently dealing with Blundstone , Terra , Royer and Hard Yakka and now looking for more names , co-director Peter Caplow is adamant that things are still in their infancy . |
| 5 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 6 | For the tongue-tied it 's worth preparing some stock comments and even preparing for social chit-chat by noting interesting stories in the media . |
| 7 | Cells were detached from flasks by first washing three times with Ca 2 + - and Mg 2 + -free phosphate buffered saline and then incubating for three minutes at 37°C with the same phosphate buffered saline to which 0.02% ( w/v ) EDTA had been added . |
| 8 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 9 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 10 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 11 | Danielle recommends massaging the oil gently into the affected areas twice daily after a warm bath , and then relaxing for several minutes afterwards . |
| 12 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 13 | Part location is improved as the spatial data recorded in HERMS can be used to find parts by : I ) specifying a position in an assembly and an enclosing search field , 2 ) specifying the maximum volume of the part expressed in extents values ( XYZ ) , 3 ) similar to 2 but by delivering a ratio between two orthogonal extents values , ie slenderness ratio , 4 ) by choosing a known part and then checking for all parts that have a specified class of interference ( or separation ) with the named part , and 5 ) combinations of I — 4 . |