Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning . |
| 3 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 4 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 5 | ‘ Something I 've been wanting to do for quite some time . |
| 6 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 7 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 8 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 9 | That is why I am writing to ask for your support . |
| 10 | It is for refugees in Britain that I am writing to ask for your help . |
| 11 | I am writing to ask for the co-operation of your Institution in a survey of Language in Teacher Education which is being carried out by the NCLE . |
| 12 | THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines . |
| 13 | In response to your advertisement in the Bedfordshire Reporter , I am writing to apply for the post of secretary/ receptionist . |
| 14 | The three largest unions are refusing to vote for his compromise which would let whites belong to a black socialist society . |
| 15 | As we show on page 10 , brewers are refusing to pay for urgent repairs to their tenanted pubs which they have earmarked for conversion to leases because new leaseholders will have to carry that burden when they take over . |
| 16 | For example , if teachers notice that a child or group of children are tending to look for information in books simply by leafing through them , hoping to find the information by accident , they can , at this stage , point out the use of the contents and index pages , and run through some quick games using these . |
| 17 | ‘ But why bother , I ask myself , when all you 're goin' to get for breakfast is a worm . ’ |
| 18 | They 're going to go for my kids , or Chrissie , I just know it . |
| 19 | They are interested in volume , obviously , and that 's what y that 's what they 're going to go for through their products . |
| 20 | So we 're already , there 's , there 's people , if we 're going at night time we 're going to go for houses without lights on . |
| 21 | But we 'll ask you to select which one you 're going to go for , and as I know we 've got a room full of gentlemen , let's start with the ladies first . |
| 22 | Erm oh we 'll they 're going to go for twenty P plus cost of the stamped addressed return envelope |
| 23 | But if , if , if that beginning , you know , i if you 're going to go for a rich peasant economy , you 've got ta convince them that it 's , it 's their advantage and it 's gon na last . |
| 24 | This year they 're going to go for four thousand . |
| 25 | Anyway we 're going to go for trap two , Smoky Amber here , now she 's a bitch that is really , I think 's going to be something special over a longer trip , erm you know a longer distance , but she is only a March eighty nine so she 's not two yet . |
| 26 | Erm , even if you know how much time you 've got left , you never how long they 're going to talk for . |
| 27 | ‘ You raped my mother and you 're going to die for it . |
| 28 | You 're going to die for what you did to her . ’ |
| 29 | You need this information to do your exercise that you 're going to do for me shortly . |
| 30 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |