Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [coord] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , limitations on domestic heating during winter smogs could lead to the elderly suffering from hypothermia , and prohibitions on the use of private cars could increase exposure to outdoor pollution whilst walking to work or waiting for public transport . |
| 2 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 3 | OLDHAM have placed Paul Round , their second-row forward , on the transfer list for £95,000 , claiming he is in breach of contract for refusing to train or play for the club , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 4 | Night in , night out he sat at home in his basement office dictating his account of the day , and seeking to record and explain for posterity what was going wrong . |
| 5 | Although it would be glib to presume that the removal of a pupil from his or her usual classes is necessarily the wrong strategy , there are obvious contradictions in operating a system based on negative sanctions and the off-loading of responsibility for one group whilst attempting to accept and cater for the diversity of the rest . |
| 6 | We tried for compensation and we 've got Tony Baldry , who we 're going to see Saturday , and he 's going to try and claim for us under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act . |
| 7 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 8 | Neither is anyone going to fetch and carry for you when you are in bed with influenza , or be there to patch you up when you fall over , burn or cut yourself . |
| 9 | And all this was reflected in a book of genius he was going to translate and embellish for his own ends . |
| 10 | When we are so ill that we have to stay in bed and be looked after , we are driven back even further into unconscious memories of having to call or cry for help for even the simplest needs . |
| 11 | Confronted by all four points of view , as well as many grey areas in between , the children were having to think and argue for themselves . |
| 12 | Carolina , a sixteen-year-old whose mother is learning to read and write for the first time , is a voluntary helper with the grandmothers ' group . |