Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing . |
| 2 | His hands swept boldly over her body , pushing aside her flimsy robe to scorch her trembling skin with his touch , and she pressed closer still , aching for more of the devastating fire . |
| 3 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 4 | ‘ But we proved against Ipswich that we can be as good as anybody on our day and we will be looking for more of the same tomorrow night . ’ |
| 5 | Welcoming the deal , general manager said : ‘ This is our first programme in aircraft seats and we 're looking for more of the same sort of business . |
| 6 | He got one against Swindon last season and ca n't wait to go looking for more in the Premier League . |
| 7 | Prepare income statements for Absent Ltd using marginal costing and absorption costing for each of the three years to aid the management accountant 's explanation . |
| 8 | The hard copy formatter works cyclically through the modules , searching for those with the specified charge code and classification and filling the relevant volume with them until its minimum fill mark is reached . |
| 9 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 10 | But then I 've got sons , and there 's never seemed much point in going for more of the same ! |
| 11 | The T x column has been included merely to help explain the calculation of e x ; it represents the total ‘ robin-years ’ of life remaining for all of the original cohort that have reached age x . |
| 12 | Waiting for each of the 100 winners , is a Nike International suit , constructed from light-wight , fully breathable waterproof Gore-Tex . |
| 13 | This is despite the passing of a law in 1981 providing for many of the Italian reform components : general hospital wards , community mental health centres and procedures for linking the various sectors . |
| 14 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |
| 15 | Accounting for some of the new instruments has not always been uniform , and a variety of arguments have been advanced to justify differing treatments . |
| 16 | As production increased farmers had a growing surplus over their household requirements and sold an increasing proportion of their crop , reaching 60 per cent in 1985 and in 1988 , and accounting for half of the national marketed production . |
| 17 | The societies , plus Abbey National — which became a bank when it floated in 1989 — currently have a market share of about 85% , with banks and centralised lenders such as The Mortgage Corporation accounting for most of the remaining 15% . |
| 18 | After barely moving for most of the 1980s , monthly rents on prime commercial properties in western Berlin suddenly leapt from DM28 at the end of 1989 to DM65 a year later , bubbling up on hopes — now dashed — that the Bundesbank would move to the city , and on speculation that it will eventually become Germany 's seat of government . |
| 19 | He also considered the relationship between mispricings of index futures and mispricings of S&P100 index options , and discovered a contemporaneous correlation between changes in the futures mispricing for each of the three index futures and changes in the mispricing of the S&P ; 100 option . |
| 20 | The audition was held at the end of an afternoon and Burton discovered that he was not alone : a very young actress , Claire Bloom , was auditioning for another of the minor roles . |
| 21 | GROSVENOR had to settle for a point from a Section II encounter with Mid Antrim despite dominating for most of the 70 minutes . |
| 22 | Living proof of this point are tonight 's audience , who have come here hoping for some of the screaming industrial hardcore MBM used to play , but nevertheless 90 per cent of them would do their unintentionally amusing Maori rugby player dance to a series of sampled farts if they thought they should . |
| 23 | The immediate reason seems to have been that Indian painters working for some of the Spanish and criollo masters complained of mistreatment . |