Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 2 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 3 | The military style great coat , which we featured a couple of weeks ago , is probably THE single item fashion victims are queueing up for . |
| 4 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 5 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 6 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 7 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 8 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 10 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 11 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 12 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 13 | What 's it to me if you and yer lady friend are goin' in for liftin' ? |
| 14 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 15 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 16 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 17 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 18 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 19 | TOUGH guys Sylvester Stallone , 46 , and Arnold Schwarzenegger are squaring up for their latest film The Last Action Hero . |
| 20 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 21 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 22 | Welcome back:Thousands of new Oxford students have been signing up for anything from scuba diving to tiddlywinks , in this year 's freshers ' fair . |
| 23 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 24 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 25 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 26 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 27 | Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion . |
| 28 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 29 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 30 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |