Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And their next four home matches could all be full houses as Roker fans , clamouring for tickets for the 80,000 sell-out final against Liverpool or Portsmouth , try to make sure of their Wembley places . |
| 2 | By the time ‘ taking stock ’ is occurring in preparation for the annual report to parents , priorities are being considered for next year 's Plan . |
| 3 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 4 | The West German Finance and Economics Ministers , Theo Waigel and Helmut Haussmann , also visited Moscow , on Aug. 24-25 , to discuss matters relating to assistance for the Soviet economy and German-Soviet economic and technological co-operation . |
| 5 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 6 | P&O 'S MUCH loved cruise liner , Canberra , is to be the flagship for the allied veterans returning to Normandy for the 50th anniversary of D-Day next year . |
| 7 | The children will visit Edenside later this month for two ‘ familiarisation ’ days in the classrooms at Kelso before returning to Heiton for the last day of term . |
| 8 | There is a break from June 19 to July 7 , after which the hearing switches to the Marton Hotel and Country Club , near Middlesbrough , before returning to Northallerton for the final stages . |
| 9 | The purchaser must be the person suffering loss unless it can be shown that the purchaser was acting as agent for the injured customer . |
| 10 | The authority , ‘ a body of people acting as trustees for the public interest ’ , does not however exercise executive control over broadcasting . |
| 11 | By mid-1993 one location — still to be named — will be acting as testbed for the improved HSE audit procedures . |
| 12 | As the Crawford Committee recommended in 1926 , ‘ the broadcasting service should be conducted by a public corporation acting as Trustee for the national interest and its status and duties should correspond with those of a public service ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Bill was being treated at South Cleveland Hospital and he saw notices that they were looking for donations for the holistic centre in the new hospital building . |
| 14 | Wednesday are looking for £800,000 for the former Swindon player , who Chelsea value at closer to £500,000 . |
| 15 | In looking for buyers for the gold-producing assets , Hanson has been helped by the recent upturn in the gold price . |
| 16 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 17 | He started looking into corners for the bugging device , though he said he was searching for a stray cigarette , left over from the days when he smoked . |
| 18 | Such representation must take the form of an onshore administrative unit of the undertaking , commensurate with the size of the latter and operating with responsibility for the technical and commercial management of the fishing vessels concerned ( manning , wages , welfare benefits , leave , taxation , repairs , ships ' supplies , etc . ) . |
| 19 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 20 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 21 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 22 | MEL is part of the Philips group , and its contender is heavily based on a radar known as Smart which another Philips company is developing in Holland for the Dutch Navy . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 24 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 25 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 26 | It 's what they say it 's just the whole business of looking at lectures for the British National Corpus . |
| 27 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 28 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 29 | A group which has been juggling with fire for the past year is staging its first play . |
| 30 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |