Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] 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 | Mr Gregory could be looking around for a job at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 5 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 6 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 8 | ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sleeping out : Hartlepool people will be sleeping out for a night later this month to raise money for local projects to tackle homelessness . |