Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | Detectives are stepping up their hunt for a rapist who attacked a woman at Nottingham 's Music Festival at the weekend . |
2 | Police are stepping up their hunt for two armed raiders who 've kidnapped and threatened shop managers in a spate of robberies . |
3 | Police are stepping up their hunt for a man who 's carried out a series of sexual attacks on women in the last seven months . |
4 | Now they 're stepping up their call for action . |
5 | Election ‘ 92 : How the main parties are staking out their ground for a hung parliament |
6 | I am giving up my throne for the woman I loathe |
7 | During the next few months , Network Development will be stepping up its search for possible locations , and branches will often be requested to supply local knowledge when new sites are identified . |
8 | The SDLP 's Pat Devine said that his party would be working out their policy for the AGM at a series of meetings involving all 17 of their councillors . |
9 | On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction . |
10 | ‘ I 'd never suffered like that , not to the extent where tears were pouring down my face for no apparent reason . |
11 | The Rutshire and the South Sussex were warming up their ponies for the Jack Gannon . |
12 | Having understood what was going on , people were putting up their hands for requests . |
13 | I thought well that 's made up my mind for me . |
14 | ‘ And now here he is pouring out his soul for the whole world . ’ |
15 | I do n't wonder my lord of Kent is holding out his hands for it . |
16 | However if this is what the old person wants , one of the most helpful things we can do is to back up their wish for this to happen . |
17 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
18 | Zen suddenly understood that Bartocci had some move in mind , something which he was keeping up his sleeve for the moment . |
19 | The fact that the Institute was setting down its objectives for the first time was seen as ‘ a move in the right direction ’ . |