Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 2 | I am allowing for the fact that , in a substantial number of cases , investigations could not be concluded , and many complaints were withdrawn . |
| 3 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 4 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 5 | A charter of Charles the Bald in 875 exempted the peasants of St-Philibert , Tournus , in Burgundy from market dues " whether they are trading for the abbey or for themselves " . |
| 6 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 7 | ‘ For here we do not have an enduring city , but we are looking for the city that is to come , ’ says the writer to the Hebrews . |
| 8 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |
| 9 | Euro competition chief Sir Leon Brittan has been pushing for the guide since a survey found British cars were an average 59 per cent dearer than the cheapest Continental prices . |
| 10 | They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know . |
| 11 | We 're staying for the party and we 're spending the night here . ’ |
| 12 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 13 | Choose your coach with care ; be sure that they know what they are doing for the theatre and actor of today . |
| 14 | ‘ I do not suppose , however , that you will be applying for the position so I shall wait for Alain to send a few people here for me to see . |
| 15 | That 's why I 'm pushing for the fight and for me the sooner the better . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ The whole country will be looking for the result and most of them will be hoping the underdogs do well . |
| 17 | We will be looking for the team that shows most strength in depth , across a range of ages , and both sexes . |
| 18 | At a time when many middle-class voters would be looking for the party that would best defend them from Labour , this Conservative strength would be of vital importance . |
| 19 | He will be searching for the Volvo and with his kind of luck he will no doubt find it . |
| 20 | Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict . |
| 21 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 22 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 23 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 24 | I will be voting for the motion and I will be voting against the amendment . |
| 25 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 26 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |
| 27 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 28 | The solution was to operate independently , to abide by the unwritten rules of royal management and not let the Prince and Princess get into a position where they were competing for the limelight except when the occasion was pure entertainment . |
| 29 | Mr Buxton would not say how many companies were bidding for the work but he hoped the successful tender would be accepted in March , allowing work to start . |
| 30 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |