Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 2 | So why should we still be looking around for suitable composts ? |
| 3 | Please could you confirm this is all OK , as if it is n't I shall be looking around for other people as my financial situation gets monthly more worrying ! |
| 4 | AS WE SEARCH the economic indicators for those green shoots of recovery , we should , perhaps be looking too for other signs to help restore confidence in a book world currently so high on gloom . |
| 5 | My own opinion , however , is that now that the returns on bank savings have plummeted , investors will be searching desperately for new avenues of investment and shares and property will certainly be high on the list . |
| 6 | Applying those considerations to the present case , their Lordships are of the view that since the plaintiff was well aware that the defendants would be acting also for other vendors of comparable properties and in so doing would receive confidential information from those other vendors , the agency contract between the plaintiff and the defendants can not have included either ( a ) a term requiring the defendants to disclose such confidential information to the plaintiff or ( b ) a term precluding the defendants acting for rival vendors or ( c ) a term precluding the defendants from seeking to earn commission on the sale of the property of a rival vendor . |
| 7 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 8 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 9 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 10 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 11 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 12 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 13 | Dettori , who will be warming up for next season in Hong Kong , did not rest on his laurels , steering odds-on Shintillo to a sauntering success in the Something For The Boys Maiden . |
| 14 | A new parish priest will be arriving here for next Sunday , whose name is Fr John Molyneux . |