Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 2 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 3 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 4 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 5 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 6 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 7 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 8 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 9 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 10 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
| 11 | Is n't it awful to think your legs decide what your retirement 's going to be , but they do , more or less , so that if you th if you think a if you 've ever had any trouble with them you 'll realize , people say , you know , would you , we 're going out for the day , you coming ? |
| 12 | These friends from up north are coming for the weekend , so we 're going out for the weekend |
| 13 | And that 's all now so Val said she said I said to Cheryl now do n't you go and take Mervy away cos me and Ken certainly are n't gon na go and sit sit with erm the 's all dinner time so she said what they 're gon na do , they 're going out for the meal and everything and then they 're Ken are gon na go to Cheryl 's for the rest of the day So I said so that 's upset your plans then Val she said is n't it just ! |
| 14 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 15 | Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot . |
| 16 | And er I do do n't know which day it was but she was sitting there fed up second day I 'm thinking she said well I , I 'm going home tomorrow , so I said no you 're staying in for the week ! |
| 17 | ‘ You 're holding out for a wedding-ring , ’ he said flatly . |
| 18 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're crying out for a replacement for Gary Lineker , ’ said Horton , ‘ and a front two of Bull and Shearer does n't sound bad to me . |
| 20 | They 're coming up for the luggage . ’ |
| 21 | And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams . |
| 22 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 23 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 24 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 25 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 26 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 27 | we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with . |
| 28 | The move will be seen as a further step towards a possible post-election deal between Labour and the Liberal Democrats , who are holding out for a commitment to PR for the Commons as a pre-condition of backing a minority government . |
| 29 | FERRARI the fast fading Grand Prix giants , are revving up for a revival … with British know-how . |
| 30 | SISTERS Joyce Anderson and Jean Tebble are revving up for the start of one of the biggest fund-raising drives to be organised on Merseyside . |