Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 2 | Dressing up for a walk in the forest to find eggs |
| 3 | he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June |
| 4 | Lining up for a photocall in front of the latest Leyland Daf trucks , just before the announcement of the rosy future the newly formed companies have predicted for themselves . |
| 5 | Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend . |
| 6 | The girl , on a youth training scheme , was waiting sullenly for an opening in a hairdresser 's . |
| 7 | Mr Venables of Lilac Grove , Whitby , Ellesmere Port , collapsed at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going out for a drink in May . |
| 8 | You might think you 're safe nipping out for a hill-walk in a Parka with nylon fur round the hood , and a pair of trawlerman 's oilskin trousers you bought at a life-boat fund-raising stall , but that 's the day you 'll bump into Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert with a film crew making Highlander 3 . |
| 9 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 10 | Not only did the sturdy lock crown a storming performance by bullocking over for a try in the final minute , he undoubtedly played himself into a Lions place . |
| 11 | I 'm getting out for a pee in a minute , so I 'll get one out of the Land Rover if you throw the keys . ’ |
| 12 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 13 | I am sure , however , that Jim will be back competing hard for a place in the Walker Cup side at Portmarnock . |
| 14 | Shadow community care minister David Hinchliffe is campaigning vigorously for a change in the law . |
| 15 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 16 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 17 | Also , portraits of individual children are far more common in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth , again arguing both for a change in fashionable attitudes , and also , may be , for a greater emotional investment in children by parents . |
| 18 | Jeff Dujon in action against Worcestershire early in 1984 , warming up for a century in the Old Trafford Test . |
| 19 | He congratulates himself , however , on auditioning successfully for a part in this Parisian cinema . |
| 20 | She has a miserable time , leaving home for a job in a club , escaping from reform school to hang out with drunken hoodlums and joining up with some soldiers for a bout of petty thieving that culminates in murder , and the film never allows one into the girl 's experience . |
| 21 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 22 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |