Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 2 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 3 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 4 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 5 | Twenty or thirty thousand people were kneeling down facing westwards , patiently waiting for the final prayers of Ramadan . |
| 6 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 7 | Calera are obviously aiming for the mass market . |
| 8 | With these species , go for calmer water ( perhaps opting for the air-powered foam filter ) and consider planting natural plants in pots , or at least add a layer of Duckweed , Azolla , or other floating plant at the surface to encourage bubble nesting in Gouramis . |
| 9 | Scarlet , though not reassured by her words , was touched by her gesture until she saw that Camille was merely reaching for the crisp packet and had patted her in passing . |
| 10 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid I ca n't see much changing for the red scouse game on saturday , though . |
| 12 | When she failed to respond the French cutter opened fire with her bow chaser , hitting the superstructure of Sea Rover which by then was obviously making for the English coast . |
| 13 | No-one in the England camp was prepared to say whether there was less longing for the next tour of the Caribbean or to Pakistan , where the proposed 1996–97 series seems safely enough into the future . |
| 14 | If there is no local museum , there may be a professional archaeologist in the area , perhaps working for the local authority . |
| 15 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 16 | This is not catering for the indigenous population of Ayrshire and Arran . |
| 17 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 18 | The squabbling is not fitting for the so-called ambassador for Liverpool . |
| 19 | I 'm just looking for the biographical summary Ellis has given me . |
| 20 | Christie 's have got it and they 're just waiting for the right sale . |
| 21 | Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress . |
| 22 | This time he moved across to her , and she flinched back , not caring for the threatening look on his face . |
| 23 | Not waiting for the official Alpha launch on November 10 , DEC had Jensen , its Alpha AXP personal computer prototype , out at Net World in Dallas last week . |
| 24 | I think half the crowd were on their way home , down Headington Hill , down Lime Walk , bemoaning United not scoring for the second week in succession , then up steps Andy Melville . |
| 25 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 26 | As the water gets warmer , it is visualized that the structure becomes more random , thus accounting for the increased fluidity of the water at higher temperatures . |
| 27 | Children were then allocated at random to the two remaining groups of adenoidectomy or no surgery in addition to unilateral insertion of ventilation tubes until June 1986 , thus accounting for the reduced numbers at follow up in the later years . |
| 28 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 29 | No what amazes me Mr Chairman is that here we are , we 're being cost conscious on every ground and we 're saying we 're making a statement that we enter into an exercise that we have no idea , we 're not asking for the actual cost , we are asking , we are asking you must of had an idea what it would cost or I feel Mr Chairman that that , can I put it mildly , lack of planning and certainly financial planning possibly |
| 30 | TULFARRIS : Consistent last season but this term has saved best running for the all weather tracks . |