Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [v-ing] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these students were full time or sandwich undergraduates aiming for a first degree and enrolled on a course of three or more years duration . |
| 2 | In the '60s Scottish football was awash with stories of ‘ scouts ’ — the often unpaid enthusiasts who scoured the pitches of school-boy Scotland looking for the next generation of international talent . |
| 3 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 4 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 5 | The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house . |
| 6 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 7 | Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place . |
| 8 | As time passed I became more and more interested in the intriguing field of radio broadcasting , little knowing that this was only the beginning of a radio career lasting for the next 50 years . |
| 9 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 10 | When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent . |