Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After tossing and turning for another while , Amiss fell into a deep sleep from which he was woken less than an hour and a half later by his alarm clock . |
| 2 | Kelly was pushing and kicking for all she was worth , with her stick working in her left hand . |
| 3 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 4 | At midday , he always took a half-hour break , sitting in the kitchen armchair with his feet up on a stool , nibbling toast and dripping and preparing for another long afternoon behind the counter . |
| 5 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 6 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 7 | But to Perdita they appeared curiously passive , sitting and waiting for some man to make them unhappy . |
| 8 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |