Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | We are not just looking for tax disc dodgers , we are looking for insurance offences , or MOT offences and the condition of vehicles . ’ |
| 32 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |
| 33 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |
| 34 | Well , this is a slightly more complicated application , where you 're not just selling for example straight from stock , but you take orders from customers , and then you would have to manufacture , perhaps to buy in , to assemble , some sort of goods for sending out . |
| 35 | ‘ You 're not just asking for money , though , are you ? ’ he said . |
| 36 | You 're not just paying for milk . |
| 37 | Its not easy buying for old ‘ uns these days . |
| 38 | and actually she 's excellent and I like her not like working for a female boss good people er |
| 39 | She used her religion as a way of not ever speaking for herself . |
| 40 | In other words , they were not directly listening for the sound /t/ in the speech as it came in , but rather determining that a word contains a /t/ after actually identifying the word . |
| 41 | ‘ But not always looking for the artist , ’ she said . |
| 42 | I 'm just now coming for mine . |
| 43 | She was not really looking for an answer . |
| 44 | er not really looking for a revolution , just looking back to where you were before |
| 45 | With and Malcolm not really firing for Derbyshire , I should n't think Lawrence would be a virtual certainty for the winter team . |
| 46 | He was a pioneer at one time , but he 's not really pushing for anything right now — just kind of playing the blues . |
| 47 | The first hint that things were not really changing for the better came in 1945 when , according to Damiani , two Palestinian Jews paid a visit to his father . |
| 48 | However we are not simply waiting for an upturn in the world economy . |
| 49 | It is not particularly illuminating for the layman , as it does not specify the actual charge or reflect the real costs incurred in making the voyage . |
| 50 | This would be sufficient to guarantee that the public were not indirectly paying for the corporation 's rehabilitation . |
| 51 | Aveline , I 'm not even checking for figures there I 'm just looking through , just scanning through , erm I 'm I 'm , I have n't said how we 're gon na check these . |
| 52 | Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms . |
| 53 | There are , of course , many other accounts by Turovsky , Serge Baudo , Michel Plasson , Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and others — not bad going for a composer who , according to one recent scribe , owes his place in the repertoire , ‘ albeit at the fringes , to Karajan 's stunning account of the ‘ dona nobis pacem ’ resolution of his Symphonie liturgique ’ . |
| 54 | They had made the length of Loch Ness in one day , not bad going for an old man on horseback ; ‘ when he rode , ’ says Boswell at the end of the Life , ‘ he had no command or direction of his horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . ’ |
| 55 | Not bad going for a full-back is it . |
| 56 | Not bad going for most in modern industrial times , but even more so for people like 28-year-old Ewan , from Hamilton , who has found a new job as a salesman . |
| 57 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 58 | Where parents are not actually caring for the child at the time of the application the court must consider whether they would be likely to offer a reasonable standard of care if the child were returned to them . |
| 59 | It is that those who are not currently working for money make no contribution to the nation 's gross national product — that they are consumers only , not producers . |
| 60 | No one can go on indefinitely yearning for what is not available . |