Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're only going away for a weekend , for heaven 's sake ! |
| 2 | Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ? |
| 3 | Ah sure he 's only staying out for a while till he gets married and that . |
| 4 | I kept the boost up as long as I could ; then , when I felt it start to go , relaxed , and went back to merely running fast for a while . |
| 5 | Just pausing there for a moment , can you point out to Mr Inspector where that er building was to be developed , Mrs ? |
| 6 | Kissing or touching another man in a sexual way or even just going out for a drink without telling a partner is regarded by most as being unfaithful . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought we were just going out for a couple of hours ! ’ she protested hotly . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just going out for a minute , Mam , I wo n't be long . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm just going out for a bit . |
| 10 | ‘ She said she was just popping out for a minute , ’ she replied . |
| 11 | The role of a positive mental set , i.e. deliberately looking out for a panic attack as an opportunity to practice self-control techniques , rather than running away from it , supports the school of thought that views a panic attack as largely cognitive — behavioural in nature . |
| 12 | ‘ And because of remarks like that is it any wonder you 're still scratching around for a woman to share your miserable existence with ? ’ |
| 13 | Final configuration and pricing has yet to be finalised , the firm says , and it is still casting around for a name , although Series 200 has been mooted . |
| 14 | ‘ Sorry , no , ’ Ellie said dismissively , and if Phena thought she was also coming in for a chat she was mistaken . |
| 15 | Farrar , in his fourth outing for the Central Park giants , notched a try in each half with Shaun Edwards also sweeping over for a couple . |
| 16 | The Duchess , now heading fast for a divorce , says there WAS a vague discussion about how bad things were between herself and Andrew but ‘ it was useless ’ . |
| 17 | The thought of those yards of bare floorboards , pounded day in and day out by scores of muddy boots , fairly crying out for a bucket of hot suds and a good brush , filled Nelly 's heart with joy . |
| 18 | Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours . |
| 19 | Game players every where are now queuing up for a copy of this excellent graphical game with breathtaking colours . |
| 20 | In front , this vision will help a bunny exactly locate its next mouthful , as well as accurately assess the character of the terrain and the location of its bolt hole when being pursued or when simply going home for a snooze . |
| 21 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 22 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 23 | Also , portraits of individual children are far more common in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth , again arguing both for a change in fashionable attitudes , and also , may be , for a greater emotional investment in children by parents . |
| 24 | blindly coming up for a breather |
| 25 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |