Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iago seems to be acting wholly for the others ' good , since , as he challenges us to deny , ‘ this advice I give is free and honest . |
| 2 | You seem to be looking outside for a solution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 5 | After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work . |
| 6 | She goes to boarding school in Sanderstown , but , ’ with a smile , ‘ always seems to be coming home for the holidays . |
| 7 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 8 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 9 | I hope this excluded ‘ young ’ Winston Churchill who seems to be doing more for the miners than the opposition parties put together . |
| 10 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 11 | Although the haze had restricted visibility forward Spencer recalls that he could see down quite well and everything seemed to be going smoothly for a controlled emergency landing . |
| 12 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 13 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 14 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 15 | It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice . |