Example sentences of "be [verb] for [pos pn] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike McAnenay ( 40min ) and John McQuade ( 86 ) gave Dumbarton their third successive triumph over the bottom club , who are looking for their first home win of the season . |
| 2 | When you 're looking for your first home , there are so many things to consider . |
| 3 | Whether you 're looking for your first flat or have finally found the castle of your dreams , The Royal Bank of Scotland has a range of mortgage schemes specially designed to meet your particular needs . |
| 4 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 5 | Alan Bleasdale declined to contribute to NSS 's ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ feature last week ( ‘ It 's 1997 and the Conservatives are going for their fifth election victory in a row … ’ ) because he says he is n't any good at foreseeing the future : ‘ I never thought cassette tapes would catch on . ’ |
| 6 | Andrew Castle is the defending champion while British No. 1 Jeremy Bates will be bidding for his fourth title . |
| 7 | The Great Dane , recently voted the world 's best goalkeeper , will be looking for his seventh shut-out in a row as Manchester United take on Tottenham today . |
| 8 | MANCHESTER UNITED strikers Mark Hughes and Brian McClair will be playing for their first team places in Lisbon 's Stadium of Light next Tuesday . |
| 9 | If he had n't posted bail for her she would now be preparing for her first night in jail . |
| 10 | The judges then selected twenty-five sets of drawings to be rehung for their next meeting on 22nd June . |
| 11 | The Bretton Woods institutions are preparing for their fiftieth anniversary next year . |
| 12 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 13 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 14 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 15 | Carson opens up on Gipsy Fiddler in the high speed five furlong dash and Gispy Fiddler 's trainer Jonjo O'Neill is looking for his first win of the season . |
| 16 | Gloucestershire 's Richard Mainwaring is so good he walks on water … the British Barefoot Water ski-ing champion defends his title at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold Water Park this weekend … he 's looking for his ninth win and that will be a world record … |
| 17 | Now he 's looking for his next challenge . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Lyric is preparing for its first tour in five years . |
| 19 | The Riverside Theatre in Coleraine is preparing for its first production of the new season . |
| 20 | But now California is poised for its first execution in 23 years . |
| 21 | Seventy kits have been supplied so far , and the school is planning for its second batch of a hundred . |
| 22 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 23 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 24 | And , to complete his heartbreak , his car broke down when he was looking for his ninth win of the season at the Italian Grand Prix . |
| 25 | At the time of his stroke , he had just finished a major biography , which had received critical acclaim , and he was researching for his next book . |
| 26 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 27 | When Ruth climbed into her bed that night Miss Beard was packing for her next day 's departure and she was far more talkative than usual , regaling Ruth with the names and pedigrees of notables with whom she might be privileged to breathe the same air . |
| 28 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |