Example sentences of "[v-ing] for that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some areas we are already competing for that work ’ . |
| 2 | And if we did spent twelve hundred pounds on an aeroplane and came back with fifty million pounds worth of grants , I 'm not apologising for that . |
| 3 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 4 | ‘ Even allowing for that , it 's well down , Vic . |
| 5 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 6 | Again , in the trading check example above there is the matter of weekly collection : allowing for that puts the 66 per cent rate of charge on 21-week repayment in a different light — expensive , certainly , but not extortionate . |
| 7 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 8 | But , even allowing for that , Charles reckoned they were enjoying it . |
| 9 | ‘ We do not believe that the child made this up , but even allowing for that possibility , the question why must be answered and for that Mr Allen will always be culpable , ’ the statement from the lawyer , Eleanor Alter said . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ said the executive , ‘ if things keep going on the way they are , I 'll be there some day catching for that guy and I want to make sure I know his curves . ’ |
| 11 | You 're coming over so that we can discuss the demand that the women 's movement is making for free contraception and abortion on demand , and the strategy that our local women 's group might develop in struggling for that at a local level , how we relate to other women and groups of women in the area , how the abortion issue relates to other ones . |
| 12 | She followed him numbly , still praying for that elusive miracle as they went into the staff rest-room and collected two cups of coffee and then out again , back down the corridor to the consultant 's room — his room . |
| 13 | ‘ Right , ’ he says , ‘ a nice cup of tea , I was dying for that , what can I do for you ? ’ . |
| 14 | The sacrifice comes in dying for that valued person or thing . |
| 15 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 16 | By the way , friendly , protective neighbours are absolutely invaluable and well worth cultivating for that reason if no other . |
| 17 | So erm so I ca n't confirm booking for that yet but we do have one more meeting before the big box pile up so not to worry . |
| 18 | And Duff will soon make approaches to Cedric Kushner , the manager of America 's IBF 8st 10lb champion Kennedy McKinney , with a view to challenging for that title . |
| 19 | But you must be , or you must become , very much your own men and women because newspapers everywhere and all the other parts of the media are only , are just sitting there with baited breath aching for that phone to ring from you , to tell us things , because virtually anything which you get involved in , is likely in one way or another to be controversial . |
| 20 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 21 | That 's what everyone applying for that job will pitch . |
| 22 | Coming up in the next half hour , there 'll be a chance to win some superb prizes , that 's for horse racing fans , so stay listening for that . |
| 23 | Are you revising for that ? |
| 24 | My big mistake was pausing for that half-minute too long to hold the door open for the redheaded girl . |
| 25 | Here we see them training for that role . |
| 26 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 27 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 28 | Londoners lead the buyers from the south east looking for that cottage with an acre , or the house beside a river or overlooking a rugged coast . |
| 29 | I must have passed in and out of several counties that morning , looking for that dolmen . |
| 30 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |