Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 3 | More innovatively , companies signing up for the programme will be legally committed to going through a conciliation process to sort out unforeseen interoperability problems . |
| 4 | As a former Cabinet minister , George Younger is entitled to ennoblement in the Dissolution Honours , but with 10 fellow Conservatives queuing up for the Lords John Major may decide that Younger should be the one to miss out . |
| 5 | He spent 1990 watching his paymasters demolish the investment bank that he had spent the previous seven years building up for the Pru 's assault on Wall Street . |
| 6 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 7 | A pair of arms locked around his waist and the whole world jerked sideways as the dragon rose out of its long dive , claws grazing just for a moment the topmost rock on the Wyrmberg 's noisome floor . |
| 8 | And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school . |
| 9 | Gliders lining up for a competition launch |
| 10 | So we 'll have groups of teams coming along for an hour at a time and hopefully we 'll , you know , keep the impetus going through the day by doing that . |
| 11 | Film scripts specified free-spirited nymphets in mini-skirts , and there were younger actresses with more malleable identities queuing up for the parts . |
| 12 | It may involve additional cost if you 're going to have the er chefs coming in for a Saturday . |
| 13 | Many authorities have already established such appointments , and so have emphasised the basic underlying notion of equal partners working together for the benefit of young people . |
| 14 | I looked hungrily around , drinking in the sights of London : the beaver hats , lined with green velvet , of the wealthy merchants , the shabby caps of the artisans and , above all , the ornate head-dresses covered in clouds of gauze of the court ladies stepping out for a morning 's shopping . |
| 15 | Crowds waited outside the venue to catch a glimpse of pop stars turning up for the awards ceremony , being televised on ITV by Carlton tonight . |
| 16 | There were at least two world champions lining up for the start and many seasoned and experienced drivers . |
| 17 | Frank was mentioned as one of the players lining up for the attacker spot — but Olsen chose Mjelde from our local league — top scorer this year in Norway — for the reserve spot after Fjortoft . |
| 18 | And he said , ‘ What entered your head anyway , to be marrying a foreign woman when there 's hundreds of thousands of good Irish women going round with their tongues hanging out for a husband . ’ |
| 19 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
| 20 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 21 | Over the years , the numbers turning out for the clash have dwindled and the match is now normally 18 a-side . |
| 22 | Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any , or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys . |
| 23 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 24 | But by portraying those of us who have sought conductive education for our children as unthinking lemmings dashing off for a dose of Hungarian miracle water , Dr Oliver 's polemic does us — and conductive education — less than justice . |
| 25 | Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ? |
| 26 | Revision courses are also offered for students studying privately for the Institute of Housing qualification and it is hoped to provide some help to tenants ' groups in the area . |
| 27 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 28 | A respectable attempt at comic characterization , its undiminished contrivance ultimately mars the simplicity of It Only Takes a Moment , already performed as a send-up of movie love balladry , with townspeople and extras wandering in for the chorus . ’ |
| 29 | Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend . |
| 30 | The ruins of an ancient church stand near the pebble beach , which you may have to share with cows coming down for a paddle . |