Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 2 | You 'll see , they 'll quarter the soldiers on us , but the king 's officers will be pushing on for London as fast as they can . ’ |
| 3 | Yet they wriggled away , heading directly for water even though a rise in the ground had to be climbed in order to reach it . |
| 4 | Moreover , children attending school and adults turning up for work inevitably have their liberty restricted : simply because the engagement in one activity necessarily restricts their opportunity to participate in other activities , that is , restriction by effect . |
| 5 | No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening . |
| 6 | And they 're all going out for dinner tonight . |
| 7 | Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far . |
| 8 | Right lads , a lot of them coming up for sport today . |
| 9 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 10 | Actually Father Duryea , our contact , our man , always saw us right away ; but that did n't stop Hamilton hanging around for hours afterwards , in the waiting room . |
| 11 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 12 | She had never liked suiting up for trips outside in space , and this suit was an old model , and equipped for combat as well as maintenance . |
| 13 | If you are setting out for Shrewsbury tomorrow , so must Saint Winifred . |
| 14 | Setting out for France again two years later , the king was described by the anonymous author of the Brut as leaving England with ‘ ordynaunce gadred and welle stuffyd , as longyd to such a ryalle Kinge ’ . |
| 15 | Celia and I have been battling away for months now and we do n't seem to be getting anywhere . |
| 16 | Working harder for constituents individually would mean more surgeries , not to be easily provided if they were to cover the large constituencies necessitated by the STV . |