Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Resting only for a second |
2 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
3 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
4 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
5 | Again Kjell-Arne went outside , this time checking everywhere for a dog off its chain or a stray . |
6 | ‘ We are pressing hard for a meeting between BAe 's finance director and our lead investor as we are aware that time is slipping by , ’ said Mr Hooke . |
7 | Living only for a couple of microseconds on average , the muon can not go from atom to atom catalysing fusion and liberating energy indefinitely ; the dream of the ages is n't so easily fulfilled . |
8 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
9 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
10 | I went downstairs to the phone in my dressing-gown , pausing only for a second outside Toby 's door to listen for the typewriter , which was silent , and for another moment outside Mavis 's to leave her snuff-box . |
11 | certainly I think er we 'd be looking perhaps for a minimum of er er of one mile but I ca n't advise you on any level of agreement as to as to what any definition of it . |
12 | She had described the dress to them , haltingly , trying to make her account amusing , searching desperately for a tone that would make its existence plain and casual and innocent to them , but she had not quite attained it ; " My cousin Mavis , " she had said , laughing . |
13 | These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks . |
14 | Fierce criticism of the mathematical model ( the Rasch model ) on which the testing programme was founded 1979 ) encouraged the DES to begin looking elsewhere for a thermometer to take the temperature of the education system ; the benchmarks mentioned earlier may be the new thermometer ( Chapter 4 considers these criticisms of the APU ) . |
15 | However , if Microsoft can neither be bothered to put the basic information in its literature , nor inform the people handling the upgrade , should I be looking elsewhere for an alternative ? |
16 | You seem to be looking outside for a solution . |
17 | Not an easy one by any stretch of the imagination but it 's one if you 're looking desperately for an equalizer you 'd be hoping to score from . |
18 | I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress . |
19 | Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story . |
20 | He stood listening attentively for a moment as the saxophone vied with the noise of the storm outside ; then he returned to his seat , picked up his champagne glass and drained it . |
21 | It is worth pausing here for a moment to reflect on the weight of traditional thinking that McDowell is seeking to shift : |
22 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
23 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
24 | He said that the PLO was pushing hard for a role for Arafat in Monday 's ceremony and that President Clinton believed that it was up to the PLO to choose its delegation . |
25 | Just pausing there for a moment , can you point out to Mr Inspector where that er building was to be developed , Mrs ? |
26 | Long journey : Nigel Lupton , 32 , of Raby Road in Hartlepool , is training hard for a 900-mile cycle ride from Land 's End to John O'Groat 's next month . |
27 | finished from and then had to start looking again for a job . |
28 | She kneaded her sagging breasts , searching anxiously for a lump ; all was well . |
29 | Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet . |
30 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |