Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 2 | ‘ He found , after allowing for some 37 factors not related to lead , ’ says Price , ‘ that those children having high lead levels in their teeth did significantly less well in tests than did those with low levels . ’ |
| 3 | RAF Uxbridge is the current holder of the Jolliffe Trophy , which is awarded to the unit that is judged to provide the best standard of catering for all three messes . |
| 4 | The CCG team started work on the Channel Tunnel site in September 1987 and have built up until they are now catering for some 6,000 workers at two locations — Upper and Lower Shakespeare Cliff . |
| 5 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
| 6 | This paper describes an essay in implementing logical objects within a hypertext system , with the dual aims of building on the experience of document processing systems , but catering for these six differences . |
| 7 | Skipping an Ipswich rink , Roy Cutts , who had achieved a rare distinction of qualifying for all four championships — singles , pairs , triples and fours — went out in the first round of the fours to Egham of Surrey . |
| 8 | I mean when you 're looking for seventy thousand pounds savings you can only do two things . |
| 9 | In that case you 're looking for thirty five thirty six thousand which would be mister average in our company . |
| 10 | they 're looking for four fifty it 's a sixteen hundred with black cloth interior terrible |
| 11 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 12 | THANKS LARGELY to Doris Day , pop singers like Sandra Dee , Helen Shapiro and Connies Stevens and Francis , were sweetly feminine — nice girls , all looking for that one special guy , in their songs at least . |
| 13 | You 're looking for five thousand three hundred and eighty |
| 14 | Okay you know you 're looking for eight threes , what are eight threes ? |
| 15 | In the pursuit of authenticity and while looking for original P-40 coolers , the reconstruction crew located a man in Alaska who , after the war , had dug up quite a bit of military surplus from land-fills in his State . |
| 16 | The main offenders here are non-indigenous natives who have cleared areas ad acres of the best soil , farming it very poorly and working it as though it were a private farm … there is no rotation of crops and no manure applied which means he will soon be looking for another 100 acres of good soil to ruin . |
| 17 | They are looking for another 90 agents nationwide . |
| 18 | Erm Steve and Mark and I are definitely interested so that 's three people so we 're looking for another three people to share . |
| 19 | That 's no problem , so you 're looking for ten thousand pounds worth of life cover for yourself and then you 're looking for twenty eight to thirty thousand for your daughter projected forward |
| 20 | That 's no problem , so you 're looking for ten thousand pounds worth of life cover for yourself and then you 're looking for twenty eight to thirty thousand for your daughter projected forward |
| 21 | WITH HAIR styling excess no longer flavour of the month , the smart ‘ salons ’ are looking for more Nineties methods of lightening your pockets . |
| 22 | Canterbury 's 22-year-old captain , Lee Germon , avoided the follow-on with nine wickets down , but there looked to be work looming for all three spinners ND had included . |
| 23 | With inflation under four per cent and unemployment heading for three million , there was no justification for big increases , the Board of Trade President told the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 24 | Production is declining for all three grapes and the vineyards are gradually being replanted with one of the three classic varieties . |
| 25 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |
| 26 | You , you go for a job and there 's two hundred people going for that one job . |
| 27 | Well that was going for thirty nine behind what 's a name there . |
| 28 | I mean now they 're going for thirty two . |
| 29 | Some of the guys who are going for 10 million these days would n't even tie Cuntonas boots on a bad day . |
| 30 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |