Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for a [noun] " 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 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
| 7 | Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're holding out for a wedding-ring , ’ he said flatly . |
| 9 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 12 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 13 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 14 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | FERRARI the fast fading Grand Prix giants , are revving up for a revival … with British know-how . |
| 18 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 19 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 20 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 21 | Mr Gregory could be looking around for a job at the moment . ’ |
| 22 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 23 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 24 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 25 | Just wait here , I 'm going up for a bath first , you can |
| 26 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 27 | I 'm going out for a while . |
| 28 | I 'm going out for a minute anyway , . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going out for a bit . ’ |
| 30 | She said , ‘ I 'm going out for a bit to see Dickie . ’ |