Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 3 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 4 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 5 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 6 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 7 | It seemed fitting for Thatcherism to end , not with a bang , but with the protracted whimper of a ‘ hung ’ parliament ; with the Tories struggling on for days trying to patch up some squalid deal with the Ulster Unionists , before Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown were driven to 10 Downing Street in their Daimlers . |
| 8 | Hitchcock has yet to concede a goal since stepping in for Dave Beasant . |
| 9 | Er , Pam Dixon er , step stepping in for er , Dominic , is the er , bearded man back on Monday ? |
| 10 | What 's it to me if you and yer lady friend are goin' in for liftin' ? |
| 11 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 12 | Peter Scudamore 's racing records will be galloping along for years to come … |
| 13 | Both had superb , doubly dissected leaves , as elegant as the foliage of ferns , hanging down for 2ft or so . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 15 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 16 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 17 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 18 | The first is that after an initial period single parents should be required to name the father of their children when signing on for welfare . |
| 19 | The DHSS reckoned someone was signing on for me while I was in prison . |
| 20 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 21 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 22 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 23 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 24 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 25 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 26 | They followed the Thames as it curved down past the Savoy Palace , Durham and York House , past the high-pooped ships scarred from long voyages which were crowding in for repairs . |
| 27 | Trading in for a smaller house or flat again releases considerable capital , which is often shared with the offspring . |
| 28 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 29 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 30 | Expect good figures on Wednesday from hotel and brewing group Bass , booking in for profits at around £530m , up 23%. , helped by better news on the hotel front . |