Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I am fighting for the profession . |
| 2 | So you 're going for the hour slots are n't you really ? |
| 3 | So we 're looking for the good , the average , and the unexceptional as well . ’ |
| 4 | So we 're looking for the ideal candidate . |
| 5 | Perhaps they 're waiting for the police to lose interest . ’ |
| 6 | Tonight we 're heading for the finish in George Town . |
| 7 | It was 1973 and already we were preparing for the move to the States . |
| 8 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 9 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 10 | ‘ Now I 'm aiming for the top . |
| 11 | Now I 'm waiting for the police to call , following up a report that there 's some madman loose on the M1 , threatening to shoot other drivers . ’ |
| 12 | Now she was waiting for the food to reach her at the rapidly expanding camp . |
| 13 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 14 | HARDMAN Basile Boli has already left his mark on England 's Psycho — and now he 's gunning for the man they call Attila . |
| 15 | Now he was appealing for the confidence of politicians , not for the confidence of the people . |
| 16 | It 's probably just as well I 'm leaving for the States on Saturday week . ’ |
| 17 | Well I 'm going for the winter . |
| 18 | Surely they were interceding for the faithful on earth . |
| 19 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 20 | Maybe I was hoping for the impossible — that they 'd control their situation once they reached the football stadiums . |
| 21 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 22 | But then you 're paying for the use of the boat as well are n't you ? |
| 23 | But then we are planning for the future , so that 's the sort of thing you have to do . |
| 24 | Then they were waiting for the fun to start . |
| 25 | well er he 's still getting certain things in like doors I think and er , what have you , but er , and then he 's going for the D I Y sort of stuff now , I think he 's stocking that |
| 26 | And then he was leaving for the Devon summer school . |
| 27 | Yeah but there again you 're paying for the land are n't you ? |
| 28 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |