Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 32 | They want a baby they 're not concerned whether it 's going to have spina-bifida or have som , they are looking forward for a perfect baby . |
| 33 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 34 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 35 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 36 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 37 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 38 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 39 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 40 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 41 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 42 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
| 43 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 44 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 45 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 46 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 47 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 48 | I knew she was unhappy about his going away for a whole weekend when she was too sick to accompany him . |
| 49 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 50 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 51 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 52 | You all thought it was great fun — going off for a hot weather holiday ! |
| 53 | ‘ Are you heading off for a dirty weekend with the managing director ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Fancy skiving off for a few hours ? |
| 55 | Australian 250 rider David Evelyn has just collided with Cadalora in qualifying and is heading straight for a concrete wall . |
| 56 | THE death of a father-of-four , mown down as he cycled home from the shops , has brought tragic memories flooding back for a young mother . |
| 57 | If I 'm going out for a professional dinner , something formal , I will wear an evening dress . |
| 58 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 59 | You may have to carry a spare set if you are going out for a full day 's detecting as charge life can be as low as five hours , and ni-cads should not be recharged until they are spent . |
| 60 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |