Example sentences of "for [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think that there 's any scope for perhaps going down that road in the future ? |
| 2 | But Curbishley had few worries about beating Sunderland once they had had Kay sent off for foolishly retaliating against Walsh . |
| 3 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
| 4 | ‘ Marriage Guidance , ’ he said , ‘ did n't understand my need for brutally climaxing into tight white bottoms . ’ |
| 5 | The commission criticized the Federal Aviation Authority ( FAA ) for only reacting to disasters and not doing enough to prevent them . |
| 6 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 7 | Did he have any political motives for apparently dealing with the Volga population almost as harshly and coldly as with starving Ukrainians or the Tambov peasantry ? |
| 8 | She marks the seasons ’ changes by the need to utter particular blessings , prepare ritual foods , explain the reasons for so doing in simple language to an infant audience . |
| 9 | Although the ex the special allowance was actually withdrawn , but nevertheless , the responsibility for generally dealing with it , was picked up by the local authority . |
| 10 | The duty to provide such public sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district for the purposes of the Act , and to make such provision , by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise as may be necessary for effectually dealing with the contents of their sewers. ( s.14(1) ) |
| 11 | Pardy 's previous convictions were of a relatively trivial nature , being ordered out of several county towns by magistrates for persistently collecting without a licence in the street — rattling his tin in support of a variety of causes but only very recently turning his attention to those connected with animals . |
| 12 | Furthermore , an assessment of the company 's future requirements for information processing indicated that new systems should provide the facility for online updating of records and access to information to replace the existing asynchronous batch processing facilities . |
| 13 | I was arrested twice , once for trying to get out of the place , and once for just walking around the course , both times without wearing a badge . |
| 14 | Ideal for just walking round town . |
| 15 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 16 | Tough , modest and possessing an ideal temperament , Phil is renowned for always giving of his best for the Palace cause . |
| 17 | There may be considerable scepticism about Pascal 's case for always wagering on the outsider if the odds are high enough . |
| 18 | Sedimentation goes on all the time , for ever moving from place to place , for ever cannibalising itself . |
| 19 | He wished she was n't for ever tapping on the door of the room that was meant to be his , calling out to him when he did n't answer . |
| 20 | I saw her flitting through the island trees in her Ascot gloves , for ever searching for Kew . |
| 21 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 22 | Damn him for ever coming into my life ! |
| 23 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 24 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 25 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 26 | Some modern projectors have an inbuilt device for quickly switching to a new bulb . |
| 27 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 28 | For further checking pending a decision . |
| 29 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |
| 30 | ‘ There is a buzz going around that I 'm starting a band , ’ quoth Morrissey and no one could blame his Mancunian counterparts for deliberately yawning at the suggestion . |