Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [art] next " in BNC.
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1 | Road we will have to consider though against other schemes also competing for the next waive of funding . |
2 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |
3 | Since taking the post , Susan has benefited from training offered by the local authority and will be applying for the next supervisory post that is available . |
4 | SCOTTISH teenagers are not amoral hedonists living for the next ecstasy tab . |
5 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
6 | In the '60s Scottish football was awash with stories of ‘ scouts ’ — the often unpaid enthusiasts who scoured the pitches of school-boy Scotland looking for the next generation of international talent . |
7 | ‘ Chapman was essentially a designer , an artist , who was always looking for the next design , something different , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
8 | I 'm living alone now and looking for the next relationship , which I hope will be the last one . |
9 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
10 | Yet I keep changing , keep searching for the next challenge . |
11 | The ability to lock the rope quickly is also very useful when searching for the next stance , or else in performing diagonal manoeuvres . |
12 | He intends to concentrate on writing for the next year , with a summer break to make an irreverent beginner 's Guide to Opera , co-written with his colleague Paul Whitehouse . |
13 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |
14 | The people slide past like fish and I 'm sucked down the street , heading for the next and then the next set of lights . |
15 | As The Sunday Times said , ‘ When you finish The Kitchen God 's Wife , you will already be yearning for the next one , and the one after that . ’ |
16 | ‘ Yes , because we know exactly what we 're paying for the next 3 years ’ |
17 | By fixing your rate , you know exactly what you will be paying for the next months . |
18 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
19 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
20 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
21 | It lay there on the dry cracked mud below the high water mark , waiting for the next tide to wet its bottom . |
22 | Her mother described her as a dog waiting for the next command , and all she wanted to do was hold out her arms and say ‘ Come here ’ , but she was completely powerless to do anything at all . |
23 | Mildred took her suitcase from the back of the broomstick which was hovering politely , waiting for the next command . |
24 | It is now under lock and key near her husband 's tomb , waiting for the next opening of the royal vault for her last repose . ’ |
25 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
26 | She stood on the stairs by the open window , waiting for the next stroke of the bell , waiting in fact for this sign of Ernest 's madness . |
27 | We used to stand for hours beside the railway line or leaning over a bridge waiting for the next one to come rushing past , and we would write down the numbers of the engines and also their names ( King George V , Dunraven Castle ) . |
28 | We sat in silence for a while , waiting for the next pain . |
29 | There they all are : working out the profit on their duty-free ; having more drinks at the bar than they want ; playing the fruit machines ; aimlessly circling the deck ; making up their minds how honest to be at customs ; waiting for the next order from the ship 's crew as if the crossing of the Red Sea depended on it . |
30 | She stirred the saucepan , waiting for the next assault , which did not come . |