Example sentences of "[v-ing] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 2 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 3 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 4 | But , even allowing for this handicap , Irvin and Martin found that university astronomers were not happy with the ‘ inflexible ’ administration of the telescope by the Royal Greenwich Observatory . |
| 5 | But even allowing for this , current users of credit cards were much more likely than non-users to say they are easy to understand and use , convenient and make shopping simple ; and more likely to say that they encourage people to spend too much . |
| 6 | Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould . |
| 7 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 8 | The method of allowing for this is to show how many divorces there are per 1,000 of the married population . |
| 9 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 10 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 11 | Allowing for this element means that the average income from farming per full-time equivalent may be about £9,000 per annum . |
| 12 | Are you , are we allowing for this or |
| 13 | " Every state " , wrote a historian at the end of the eighteenth century when such questions had lost much of their earlier emotional charge , " while contending for this high and delicate point , has brought forward every sort of argument , however weighty , or however trivial , which could apply exclusively to itself " . |
| 14 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 15 | One of the publishers most successful at catering for this hunger for information is International Data Group ( IDG ) , a firm that has grown big by breaking many of the management rules cherished by other big publishers . |
| 16 | ( An insurance company catering for this is AXA Equity and Law on 071-588 6026 . ) |
| 17 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 18 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 19 | consider engaging professional help to get a critical analysis of WO population/housing growth predictions and the likely impact of catering for this growth . |
| 20 | Quiksilver had created the richest prize in surfing for this contest : $50,000 for the winner . |
| 21 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 22 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 23 | that dredging for this voice has drowned no other |
| 24 | Yes , you , you 've got to keep agitating for this holiday . |
| 25 | She nodded slowly , meeting his gaze with trusting eyes , praying for this chance , that was her path to happiness . |
| 26 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 27 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 28 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 29 | And a , that postal road , you can go walking for this . |
| 30 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |