Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be much worse to come if the German government decides , as it may , to pull out of the European Fighter Aircraft project on which Deutsche Aerospace was counting for future revenues . |
| 2 | A note through her letter box was waiting for Clarissa when she got back late from rehearsal . |
| 3 | I thought — ; I mean , I supposed it was you Aunt Emily was waiting for , but she sent me out , she thinks I have been very silly over the whole affair — ’ |
| 4 | A reduction in the number of matches and the space of time in which they are played is something Mr. Robinson is pressing for . |
| 5 | But he does not seem to have noticed that Sulla and his friend Pompey were heading for self-deification : death spared him the task of having to account for the apotheosis of Caesar , Posidonius found mystical postures and bogus oracles among the supporters of the slave-king Eunus and of the barbarous Mithridates . |
| 6 | At the High Court in London , Andrew Graham and his wife Irene are battling for compensation from waste disposers Rechem International . |
| 7 | Andy has a party that night , partly for me and partly because his pal Howie is leaving for a job on the rigs the following day . |
| 8 | 1 The expression 4p +2 can stand for many numbers depending on what number p is standing for . |
| 9 | 2 What number x is standing for ? |
| 10 | Now , if that was n't what Charlotte Bronte was pleading for , I do n't know what it was . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps our friend Fagg is looking for enlightenment about the role of the Vietnamese in the Second World War , or by chance Glastonbury is investigating recent discoveries of esoteric viruses . ’ |
| 12 | When we were children , about two days before Christmas , my mother used to face us all defiantly , and say your Aunty May 's coming for Christmas , and we all used to scream no , no , not Aunty May please . |