Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique , and still has stock dating back for generations . |
| 2 | They earn their bread reckoning up for investors the risk of default . |
| 3 | Roseanne Barr would make a great Liz during her older , fatter days but could have trouble slimming down for scenes of a 60-year-old Liz in her more glamorous days . |
| 4 | We had a man sawing away for hours — great fun . ’ |
| 5 | She claims to have understood and resolved all her own hidden desires , and she spends her life doing so for others : she is a ‘ modern middleman between body and soul , a perfect salesman of the unconscious to the conscious ’ ( 33 ) . |
| 6 | Cabinet members were tight-lipped and unsmiling as they emerged from Downing Street , but MPs were convinced that it had been a stormy session , with ministers bitterly fighting their corners in what has been described as the most stringent public spending round for years . |
| 7 | On the A four two two Alcester bypass there 's a single lane working only for roadworks , and finally again on the A four one near Gaydom proving ground , there 's temporary traffic lights during the daytime only . |
| 8 | ‘ It must be nice to have pictures of your family going back for years . |
| 9 | They sat in the littered corners at the ends , beggars in various states of desperation waiting mutely for handouts . |
| 10 | The new regime consisted of a triumvirate of English Protestant , Irish Catholic and Jewish interests , with each representative chasing hard for jobs and foster homes for their charges . |
| 11 | Although this might suggest otherwise , I was all the time working hard for Schools , as I knew that Eliot , now my mentor in most things , would have strongly urged me to do . |