Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 're booked up to go and see Cats in January , oh we 've quite a few and then like , there actually spooling 's quite good at organizing for er charity . |
| 2 | Among the celebrating parties , you could see … those that were cheering for la France and de Gaulle , others for Stalin , others for el-Hussaini ( the Palestinian grand mufti ) , but you could scarcely see any that were cheering for Lebanon . ’ |
| 3 | But I say it it it became er quite increasingly important right up to its closure er of of er particularly for for catering for Bl for erm pit . |
| 4 | But enough saltpetre and sulphur to keep those guns firing for ever. , |
| 5 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 6 | Cultural cooperation with other developing countries is not equally well structured , but the Commission is bidding for ECU5 million to build it up . |
| 7 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 8 | It 's not the only way of checking for C230 . |
| 9 | Most of S6 apply to University , Polytechnics and Colleges and each pupil is seen individually so that the details of the applications can be discussed together with careers considerations and timetabling for S6 . |
| 10 | I know you you were telling me you you were applying for erm to get meals on wheels , but you ha that has n't come through yet . |
| 11 | Er as well as applying for er vacancies that appear in newspapers as well as er registering myself with er agencies with whom I 've been in contact |
| 12 | However , the effect was not dissimilar to a wash trade , if we assume that the option writer was not acting for bona fide commercial motives , but solely to support the share price . |
| 13 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 14 | But in the case of a younger person , looking for er very secure growth , it 's not a bad thing to do . |
| 15 | They I think are strengthening or er strengthening their position in the market in London by erm er a very sensible strategy of looking for er able people with client following . |
| 16 | You indicated that there 's no sign of any er , improvement in your main markets er , but looking for er , optimistic er , calculations could you give us any indications of the er , the benefits of the er , non recurrence of the Gulf War in the first half ? |
| 17 | But in the main we are looking for er somewhere in the region of er hundred and eighty pounds per per per deal and we 're looking for one of those a day average . |
| 18 | Pen 's run out right okay so you 're looking for er a savings plan or a l a lump sum of money for ten years plus for your daughter ? |
| 19 | and more and more and more people are looking for experience , they 're looking for vocations , they 're looking for er the sort of attributes which , you know , are n't actually overflowing when you 're unemployed in Wolverhampton |
| 20 | so I 'm just looking for er a T-shirt or something for Lisa no you ca n't have the pen it 's too sharp yeah , you 're crafty you are are n't you , you can get zips open now mm |
| 21 | Looking for er people who cand , not candidates looking for people to , you know , vote for him ? |
| 22 | And certainly from erm my department 's point of view we would be looking for er an inclusion of a criterion on the need to avoid higher quality agricultural land . |
| 23 | Well sorry , pushy , I mean we got push not what 's the , what 's the , the , the , not pushy 's not the right word I 'm looking for erm asking in a confident manner |
| 24 | Erm those sites are subject to other lo locational restrictions and other environmental restrictions and would n't in our view be appropriate for the sort of development that he 's looking for erm a location in in our context anyway generally speaking along the A one corridor . |
| 25 | This at A Mike Calvert 's suggestion , was officially No.7 Centre so enemy agents might be confused in looking for No.6 . |
| 26 | I 'm look looki looking for Hi Hilda . |
| 27 | Er our only problem is that some of our housing is concentrated in rather large blocks , and that does put pressure looking for v var variety of sites in the county and we are erm getting a lot of objection for some potential development sites in our area at the present moment . |
| 28 | What , what I 'm looking for i i are two things really . |
| 29 | What I 'm looking for e effectively is a set of criteria which will promote best planning practise either at structure plan or local plan level , in order to judge the location of this settlement . |
| 30 | looking for ai n't they ? |