Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I owe you a pound , yeah , I ca n't give it to you dear because I 've still got exactly a ten pound note dear and I 'm waiting for the pools lady dear |
| 2 | There were a lot of distractions , and I was looking for the . |
| 3 | When it was time to leave and I was waiting for the car to take me back to the station for the journey back , I have to confess that I shed a tear or two . |
| 4 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 5 | Perhaps you have had telephone problems of late and you are waiting for the Telecom engineer . |
| 6 | And all the way through the film these things were happening and you 're waiting for the thrilling resolution . |
| 7 | But because when you got the , you think you got the heating on and you 're paying for the heating , and you open the windows . |
| 8 | It was a young female golden eagle , and she was going for the carrion he had left . |
| 9 | We are staying in our hotel and we are waiting for the Serbs to stop killing the people . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We are concerned and we are preparing for the worst . ’ |
| 11 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 12 | Tracy wants a pair of boots and we 're waiting for the sales . |
| 13 | My own view that Sun readers are n't stupid and that the general public is n't really a stupid erm but erm they enjoy reading it and they 're reading for the experience of reading , getting their views and are very almost like , have you ever seen processed cheese slabs , you know you can buy little pieces of cheese in little wrappers that stick on your bread or your butter or your rolls and the way the Sun , the Sun newspaper 's kind of like that , if you do n't wan na read thirty five pages in the Independent every day , enormous amount of news terrifically written , reported for the , for the most part , you could read the Sun at a quarter of the price , except that you do n't get all the news and you also get er a different political viewpoint but it 's one way of getting news in er |
| 14 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 15 | Okay , we 've just signed the 8 album deal for 150 squillion quid with the record company , and they 're paying for the new gear . |
| 16 | " Some people go to work and they 're longing for the job to be finished so they can have a good time . |
| 17 | Do n't ask me to pluck figures out of the air , but it was a reasonable rent , and they were paying for the rates , and their electricity , and their water supply , and their sewage disposal , on permanent sites . |
| 18 | Only when they were sitting down in the chop-house and Dr Neil had ordered them soup and rolls , followed by lamb chops with seasonal vegetables , and a glass of red wine each — ‘ Good for your shattered nerves , ’ he said gravely — and they were waiting for the soup to arrive did Sally-Anne have time to look about her . |
| 19 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 20 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
| 21 | He has kicked the booze , lost weight , and he is itching for the Italian League to get under way . |
| 22 | I ask you : just twenty-one years old , leading the Open , six holes to go and he 's going for the green ! |
| 23 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 24 | And he was waiting for the final match in the other group between Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker to see if his No 1 ranking could be threatened . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's not a grain of truth in the Smith stories and it 's unsettling for the club , ’ said Wigan chairman Jack Robinson . |
| 26 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 27 | And ‘ On the Piste ’ is at the er Oxford Apollo , starts tonight , and it 's running for the rest of the week . |
| 28 | He smacked the ball and it was heading for the roof of the net but it hit a west ham player on the head and almost knocked his head off ! |