Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect , it is submitted , that to the extent that the observation may be characterized as seeking to compensate for any lack of clarity in the formulation of the rule in Pepper v. Hart , by the threat of judicial orders for costs , this approach is wrong in principle . |
| 2 | Pausing to listen for any sounds of activity before making her dash across to the cover of the fosse , she found herself automatically reciting part of the Litany to the Blessed Virgin : " Mother most pure , Mother undefiled , Mother most admirable , Mother of good counsel , Mother of our creator , Mother of our Saviour , Virgin most prudent , Virgin most venerable … mystical rose , Tower of David , House of Gold , Ark of the Covenant … " |
| 3 | ‘ There was no way I was going to go for that . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ What am I going to wear for this old party tomorrow ? |
| 5 | This mortaring is going to continue for some time . ’ |
| 6 | Pioneer must be assuming this trend is going to continue for some time ; its Wakefield plant does not go fully on line until 1994 . |
| 7 | The working class were not going to fall for this one , and neither were their wives . |
| 8 | I know I 'm going to suffer for this tomorrow — later today — but I do n't care . |
| 9 | She was n't going to stand for that ! |
| 10 | Disgrace ‘ It is an absolute disgrace that these thugs terrorised defenceless animals for no reason at all and even threatened our staff who tried to intervene and we are not going to stand for that , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ If you think we 're going to stand for this , ’ shrieked the shrews in their shrill little voices , ‘ you 've got another think coming ! ’ |
| 12 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 13 | ‘ Talking about the Newleys , ’ he mumbled between licks , ‘ are you going to look for another job ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'm now going to look for another young person who 's sitting here in our audience . |
| 15 | Erm did you see that th they 're , they 're going to look for some sort of gene called the Churchill factor ? |
| 16 | ‘ In the future , it seems , we are going to be taking arbitrary decisions about what we want from the countryside : the large blue here , a certain bird there , and we are going to manage for those species , which will mean that everything else will go . ’ |
| 17 | The first stage being the establishment , the next stage being penetration , the third stage being damage , what actually produces the damage in the disease , and the fourth stage is , if the disease is going to last for any period of time the ability of the organism to persist . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm fed up with you Tories , ’ she said , ‘ this time I 'm going to vote for that nice Mrs Williams . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm very glad to hear it , my dear , perhaps you 'd pass my comments along the chain of command , because , you see , my wife 's been in the party for 47 years and now she says she 's going to vote for that Natural Law doo-dah . |
| 20 | Perhaps ; but a typical reaction of the electorate at large could be more confidently predicted : " If your candidates ca n't agree among themselves we 're not going to vote for any of them " . |
| 21 | Er the only thing that I have not handed you is the Labour resolution which er twice mentions demands now although I 'm supporting this strong report here , I think it 's a mistake to demand things , it is , it does n't put people in a very good frame of mind to coax them but and I would ask the er Miss who I think we 're going to vote for this , whether she would consider changing to request , because I think we going to the situation where we make it known to the Department of Transport that we 're a string of such like , we do n't to upset them any more , I think that we requested that we answer is we would actually get a result in one . |
| 22 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 23 | [ … ] In the course of attempting to account for such market phenomena as quality differentiation , advertising , or markets in which few producers are to be found [ … ] neo-classical theories were led to conclusions which grossly misinterpret the significance of these phenomena . |
| 24 | It was a special comeback because we did n't really look as though we were going to score for much of the game . |
| 25 | How much childcare do Ministers think they are going to get for that sort of money ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to ring for that taxi . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not going to pay for all this . |
| 28 | ‘ And who 's going to pay for all this damage ? ’ the Mayor of Berlin asked my cousin . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're going to pay for that , you son-of-a-bitch , ’ the man hissed through clenched teeth as he wiped the blood from his cheek with the back of his hand . |
| 30 | She had been scorned by Leinster and , if he knew anything about her , someone was going to pay for that . |