Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the time I am curled up in my bag I am totally content , warm and well fed , exhausted but not wanting to sleep for fear of missing these moments of happiness . |
| 4 | The court ruled that a federal judge had abused his power when in August 1988 he had imposed fines on the council members , including the mayor , Henry G. Spallone , for refusing to vote for legislation needed to carry out a housing desegregation plan , itself a product of a suit brought by the NAACP against Westchester County for housing and school discrimination in 1980 . |
| 5 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 6 | It accuses the company of imposing American business practices and ignoring ‘ traditional French negotiation ’ in refusing to pay for cost overruns . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I if , if you could have got some cadres on the ground , you know , so , so the other bit of this is is if you are going to go for land reform you 've got to have , not just the military presence and military security , but enough trained honest highly motivated cadres . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well this is a four fifty metre , an A three grade and I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy . |
| 11 | erm She 's having her first race tonight erm under her latest a newish trainer , Bernie Doyle , he 's doing ever so well , his kennel 's really in form erm so I 'm going to go for trap five , Hippy to win erm first time erm at the track tonight , that 's the third leg . |
| 12 | erm And then the twelfth race , the ten twenty , there was just the top erm standard distance event , an A one grade , four fifty metres and I 'm going to go for trap one again , Ambridge Power , trained by Paul Garland , another nice erm nice dog , he 's running really well . |
| 13 | In the second race which is a sprint race , that 's a two bend race , I 'm going to go for trap one , Brook Mead Flash trained by Paul Garland. erm Ideal draw trap one , Brook Mead Flash there for me , dangerous Flashing Sabre in five and Super Zoom in trap two . |
| 14 | The management team had , I 'll sit down if you do n't mind , the management team has decided that we were going to go for quality because it was a matter of survival . |
| 15 | The crew greeted my arrival on board with facetious comments : " Anyone going trawling for pleasure should go to Hell for a pastime , " was one of them . |
| 16 | It 's also a good time to decide where you 're going to sit for example , in the dining room or the lounge . |
| 17 | ‘ But they were going to wait for Floy to get back ! |
| 18 | ‘ They are n't going to wait for Floy to come back , ’ said Caspar . |
| 19 | ’ Are we not going to wait for Frejji ? ’ |
| 20 | students tomorrow , and we are all going to meet for lunch . |
| 21 | ‘ Er , ’ said Dorcas , ‘ well , they were going to look for Grandson , 39 , and we ca n't be sure that — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Next , ’ said the captain , ‘ I learn we are going to look for treasure — hear it from my own crew ! |
| 23 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 24 | He admitted going equipped for theft , another burglary and asked for four similar offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 25 | Unix System Labs is under the impression NCR , a fellow AT&T subsidiary , is going to opt for Destiny . |
| 26 | ‘ Did he — er — mention what he 's going to do for money while he 's away ? ’ |
| 27 | Alright and what are you going to do for dessert ? |
| 28 | Er , what we are interested in is what the estimators have thought we 're going to do for labour and what the estimators thought we were going to , it was going to cost us for plant . |
| 29 | " And what are you going to use for money to begin with , eh ? |
| 30 | Labour 's Alan Milburn said : ‘ People are going to vote for change in Darlington . |