Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 2 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 3 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 4 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 5 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 6 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 7 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 9 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 10 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 11 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 12 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 13 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 14 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |