Example sentences of "[v-ing] for a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ricky was not long out of the navy , training as a body builder , doing carpentry , and also working on the door at clubs , as he was saving for a motor bike which Minton helped him to buy . |
| 2 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm paying for a star actor who can do the job of acting , not some old has-been whose memory 's gone . ’ |
| 4 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 5 | And at three or four a.m. that morning , as O and Boy kissed for the second time , the blade of a Stanley knife sliced for the second time across the cheek of a man ( I do n't remember his name , it was n't anyone I knew ) who was at that time on his own , not with anyone , just waiting , on his own , at a bus stop , waiting for a night bus which was due at any minute . |
| 6 | The special analyst they got for Italia 90 was Docherty , and he was , on the whole , pretty pathetic ( although I was amazed when , during England- Cameroun , he stated that England was playing terribly ; did n't expect this from someone commenting for a TV audience which was solidly pro-England ) . |
| 7 | Visix is currently recruiting for a UK subsidiary it plans to open in the next two months . |
| 8 | Young musicians have been auditioning for a music academy which plans to become a new centre of excellence for the arts . |
| 9 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |