Example sentences of "[adv] and [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened the door , looking away as she did so and listening for a second to the song of a skylark on the wind . |
| 2 | We have suggested techniques for creating continuity through the different sections of your essay , by linking together and signposting for a reader the various points you make . |
| 3 | He tried to catch the attendant 's eye but the man was already turning away and reaching for the nozzle of the pump hose . |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ she said , raising her head slowly and pausing for a moment . |
| 5 | That I 'm still rehearsing Hamlet somewhere and waiting for the pain to end . ’ |
| 6 | The rain struck him across the face like a whiplash as he fought to keep the bike upright and driving for the protection of the leeward bank . |
| 7 | And if one moved like the wind in branches , the other 's motion was a tower falling , a frightening , uncoordinated progression in which he seemed to crash forward uncontrollably at each stride , jerking himself stiffly upright and swaying for a moment on his heels before the next toppling step . |
| 8 | The normal daily routine involved getting up at around 6am and stopping for a long lunch at midday in order to avoid the most intense heat . |
| 9 | I 'm living alone now and looking for the next relationship , which I hope will be the last one . |
| 10 | ‘ No-one expected Rovers to be doing so well and challenging for the League , ’ he admitted . |
| 11 | This girl , this young woman , coming here and asking for the loan of a shilling for a cab fare . |
| 12 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 13 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 14 | By spreading his proposals over the next three years Norman Lamont sent out the message that he was looking ahead and planning for the future , said Mr Wellerd . |
| 15 | Such a need could be met by processing the whole file sequentially and looking for the records required , but this would be very inefficient . |