Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 WORK in the community is paying off for dedicated staff at Corporation Road Baptist Church in Darlington .
2 I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week .
3 All the happening was going on for other people miles away .
4 For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer .
5 Constanza was getting on for fourteen and everybody had forgotten about an heir .
6 MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics .
7 Our organization is crying out for high quality information to fulfil the demands made upon both full- time and lay officials .
8 His patient was getting on for fifty , a handsome , tall woman , very well-dressed .
  Next page