Example sentences of "[v-ing] for breath " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duvall was leaning against one wall , bent double and gagging for breath . |
| 2 | Struggling for breath can be exhausting and frightening . |
| 3 | ‘ Just a short sprint leaves you struggling for breath , ’ said the younger Stewart , on his first tour with England . |
| 4 | She thought again of waking him , for he was struggling for breath in his sleep . |
| 5 | Andy is wheezing , struggling for breath ; he pulls himself out from underneath the man ; there is blood round his backside . |
| 6 | She had a vision of him sometimes , struggling for breath beneath the crassness of her impulses , in the same way that she sometimes imagined her fattening body to be asphyxiating his small fine frame in bed . |
| 7 | Scarcely pausing for breath , Mr Gow declared that he would quote some Mill back at Mr Dalyell . |
| 8 | In Claude Berri 's latest film , ‘ Uranus ’ , he knocks back a whole bottle of wine without pausing for breath ; although he insists that it was merely coloured water , his fans believe otherwise . |
| 9 | Why should God bother with someone who chose deliberately to do something foolish ? ) , so I concentrated on every step , placing my feet carefully among the slippery clods and only enjoying the prospect and the blanket of stillness when pausing for breath . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yet they 're a tad more composed tonight , not averse to pausing for breath on occasion . |
| 12 | Not pausing for breath , and following ports to Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC and Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc — see page 3 — Banyan Systems Inc will this week reveal plans to put its Vines network operating system up on the IBM Corp RS/6000 . |
| 13 | Without pausing for breath , Lucid says it has also signed with Artificial Technologies Inc , Elmsford , New York , to market and support the consulting firm 's Lips-based tools — including a Motif-based toolkit — and has released XLT , a set of X-Windows-based tools for its own Common Lisp environment on Sun , HP and IBM workstations . |
| 14 | Whereupon Hargreaves threw his arms around Venetia and kissed her violently , pausing for breath only to make some comment about Public Ownership , as Giles sprawled upon the floor . |
| 15 | Without pausing for breath they emptied their collection tins on the table and paid the bill with the contents . |
| 16 | He was still talking as he propelled her through the door and back along the corridor towards the exit , barely pausing for breath , and giving her no chance at all to interrupt . |
| 17 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |
| 18 | Then , without pausing for breath or breaking her stride , she pushed open the door of his private office . |
| 19 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 20 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 21 | He caught up with Garry , puffing for breath . |
| 22 | Her father was choking for breath , clutching his throat as he fought for air . |
| 23 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he rasped hoarsely , labouring for breath . |
| 24 | The Germans , panting for breath , sank back against the ice . |
| 25 | After a minute swimming around she 'd come to the surface panting for breath . |
| 26 | So when you hear people who are in shock , they 'll be okay and that 's how they are , they 're panting , breath , right , very fast and very shallow , they 're not calm , they 're panting for breath all the time , okay , so that 's how you see them . |
| 27 | Ben Gratzler was trained to drop behind enemy lines , kill the signalman , and take over the running of a foreign railway system without stopping for breath . |
| 28 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Cheryl said , and to Bernice 's amazement , drained the entire flask without stopping for breath . |
| 29 | Dorcas hurried back and climbed , with a lot of stopping for breath , up to the plank . |
| 30 | She looked at the crumpled figure who was fighting for breath on the pillow , perspiration pouring down his anguished face . |