Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was running sixth and looking good for a point after a tense battle in the final laps when he span off the rain-soaked track on the last lap . |
| 2 | He was running sixth and looking good for a point after a tense battle in the final laps when he slid off the track on the last lap . |
| 3 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 4 | Comments : Small but high quality auditorium , with comfortable seating for up to 75 people , and costing 50 for an evening . |
| 5 | Soviet-Korean friendship and economic cooperation is developing and growing stronger for the good of the peoples of Korea and the Soviet Union , thus promoting the strengthening of universal peace and international cooperation . |
| 6 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 7 | I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again . |
| 8 | The two sessions were a mixture of going through tapes and other materials , editing and adapting these for a thirty-minute radio programme , watching a documentary of a 1944 Lancaster raid on Germany and reflecting on the project as a whole . |
| 9 | She found herself wondering how often he thought of his lady friend in America , and feeling sorry for a man who could be such fun , but who spent so much of his time working . |
| 10 | This year he is revisiting those parts , and visiting some for the first time , for a series of regional bookselling reports for The Bookseller . |
| 11 | But getting two for the reserves was encouraging . ’ |