Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength .
2 Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success .
3 and banging it out for one
4 On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night .
5 And holding them up for a little bit of erm laughter .
6 Our prime purpose is to glorify God in reaching men and women for Christ , building them up in Christ , and sending them out for Christ .
7 That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases .
8 The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental .
9 ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish .
10 Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears .
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