Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 2 | Should she join the group of young vets who had qualified with her two years ago or should she go straight back to her godmother 's house , where she was staying for the duration of this annual veterinary congress ? |
| 3 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 4 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 5 | Only the ferryman on the Oban/Lismore boat knew that I was aiming for the northern ferry to mainland Port Appin . |
| 6 | I vaguely remembered reminding mum last night that I was looking for the rest of Uncle Rory 's papers . |
| 7 | I remember excusing this by saying that I was waiting for the police and that nothing should be touched until they had come . |
| 8 | You would think that I was asking for the earth to be changed but I 'm not really . |
| 9 | When he asked her why , she shyly confessed that she was pining for the snows of her native land . |
| 10 | By the way her mother fiddled with the handle of her wicker basket Constance could tell that she was longing for the bus to come and take her to Chollerton where her beauty and style might stand some chance of being noticed . |
| 11 | I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife . |
| 12 | And remember that you are walking for the psychological benefits as well as the fitness and slimness benefits . |
| 13 | They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know . |
| 14 | I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | Oh well , well er most of us are b even , even the Tories themselves know , they know that we 're fighting for the old people , but do they we get the same old reply from them , where is the money coming ? |
| 16 | ‘ We often say that we are looking for the intention of Parliament , but that is not quite accurate . |
| 17 | And we have that purpose if we know in advance that we are looking for the answers to certain questions , or that we will be asked to carry out certain tasks as a result of viewing . |
| 18 | Lord Browne-Wilkinson quotes the observation of Lord Reid that ‘ we often say that we are looking for the intention of Parliament but that is not quite accurate . |
| 19 | PLEASE could I thank all the people who supported the ‘ Save Eldorado Campaign ’ in Northern Ireland and stress that we are campaigning for the re-introduction of the programme . |
| 20 | They 'll tell everyone that they 're looking for the stolen uranium . |
| 21 | Er two points , one comes onto environment for Mr who says that they are seeking for the environmental benefits to the A sixty one and relates something to the percentages . |
| 22 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 23 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 24 | At the height of the romance , the pair were inseparable and it was obvious to family and friends that they were heading for the altar . |
| 25 | They said first they would never race again , then that they were withdrawing for the season , then that it was unpatriotic of the Austrians to run a grand prix while their hero was near to death . |
| 26 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 27 | The first real headhunting firms — in the first phase of headhunting — insisted that they were working for the company , not the candidate , and the company was paying the bill . |
| 28 | Norman Fowler 's speech was far too left-wing for them , so they were heading for the ‘ Hedgehog and Hogshead ’ , a railway pub north of the main Brighton railway station . |
| 29 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 30 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |