Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 2 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 3 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 4 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 5 | ‘ We are pressing hard for a meeting between BAe 's finance director and our lead investor as we are aware that time is slipping by , ’ said Mr Hooke . |
| 6 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 7 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |
| 8 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 9 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 10 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 11 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 12 | Work is well on , but they are looking particularly for an Aldis gun sight for the project . |
| 13 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 14 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 15 | Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story . |
| 16 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 17 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 18 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 19 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 20 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 21 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 22 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 23 | Not an easy one by any stretch of the imagination but it 's one if you 're looking desperately for an equalizer you 'd be hoping to score from . |
| 24 | It 's surprising how much louder they seem to get when you 're bedding down for the night . |
| 25 | We 'll tell her we 're going away for a breather . ’ |
| 26 | And then you 're going away for the weekend ? |
| 27 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 28 | They may be absolutely fine , and if you 're going there for a number of years , you 've probably got no er problem with them , but of course the smaller the organization the simpler is , it is for other erm factors to creep in . |
| 29 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
| 30 | Is n't it awful to think your legs decide what your retirement 's going to be , but they do , more or less , so that if you th if you think a if you 've ever had any trouble with them you 'll realize , people say , you know , would you , we 're going out for the day , you coming ? |