Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 2 | We 're staying for the party and we 're spending the night here . ’ |
| 3 | Choose your coach with care ; be sure that they know what they are doing for the theatre and actor of today . |
| 4 | That 's why I 'm pushing for the fight and for me the sooner the better . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The whole country will be looking for the result and most of them will be hoping the underdogs do well . |
| 6 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 7 | I will be voting for the motion and I will be voting against the amendment . |
| 8 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 10 | Rodney Klevan QC is appearing for the prosecution and Gilfoyle is defended by David Turner QC . |
| 11 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 12 | Pricing has yet to be decided , but BT is aiming for the look and feel of the service to be the same as for its existing messaging services . |
| 13 | The IEHO is calling for the strengthening and extension of existing legislation , a move supported by Mr Mayled , who felt that making the HSC guidelines law was the only way to improve standards across the board . |
| 14 | Bettelheim and Zelan suggest that the child 's feeling for the event and for language was so strong that she was able to invent a new word spontaneously . |
| 15 | I am arranging for the packaging and masters for the above title to be delivered to you with this letter . |
| 16 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |
| 17 | One said : ‘ He was going for the ball and then he winced in pain . |
| 18 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 19 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 20 | He went along with a friend who was auditioning for the lead and landed the part himself , playing a thug hanged for murder . |
| 21 | My niece was visiting for the day and she asked if she could have a drink of orange juice so I told her to go ahead and help herself . |
| 22 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 23 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |