Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 2 | You seem to be looking outside for a solution . |
| 3 | However , if Microsoft can neither be bothered to put the basic information in its literature , nor inform the people handling the upgrade , should I be looking elsewhere for an alternative ? |
| 4 | Mr Gregory could be looking around for a job at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | certainly I think er we 'd be looking perhaps for a minimum of er er of one mile but I ca n't advise you on any level of agreement as to as to what any definition of it . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Both the increased cost and the loss in predictive validity will most hurt the poor and disadvantaged , who will be paying more for a test that is less likely to spot unfulfilled native abilities . |
| 8 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 9 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 10 | He said hastily , ‘ I 'll be going away for a bit and I guess I 'll be ravenous when I get back . |
| 11 | I sha n't be going anywhere for a while . |
| 12 | It 's important that we do n't lose but we wo n't be going there for a draw . ’ |
| 13 | It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice . |
| 14 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , I 'll be staying here for a while , sharing the caravan with Boz and Alamena . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Then we 'll be travelling together for a couple of stops . |
| 17 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |
| 18 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 19 | ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe . |
| 20 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 21 | Sleeping out : Hartlepool people will be sleeping out for a night later this month to raise money for local projects to tackle homelessness . |