Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 2 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 3 | Allowing for 120 proxy votes and some 50 people at the AGM , less than half the AFBD membership bothered to register their opinion . |
| 4 | Now I 'm not suggesting for one moment that anybody who has all the problems that dear Mr has there , but I think we might be able to learn something , do you ? |
| 5 | I 'm not suggesting for one moment it 's easy , but I mean is it possible that , you know erm accepting that this is a major conflict , it does involve all of us whether we like it or not |
| 6 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 7 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 8 | The unit of pollination is a capitulum of flowers ; of the 11 species studied , nine were bat-pollinated , the capitula with flowers opening for 1 night , secreting copious nectar and being bright red or yellow or both , with characteristic scents : they are visited by eight species of bat , some of them nectar thieves . |
| 9 | Marinate in a light French dressing for 1 hour . |
| 10 | Police in York are looking for two sex pests following indecent exposure incidents in Salisbury Terrace and Heslington Road . |
| 11 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 12 | Norman 's always looking for one hole are n't you Norm ! |
| 13 | I need to looking for one person , someone . |
| 14 | So we 're looking for one person . |
| 15 | Instead of looking for one thing to satisfy our needs we might try looking for combinations . |
| 16 | So you 're actually looking for one thing ? |
| 17 | They 're looking for one sort of nice house to sort of show them more or less . |
| 18 | This could not happen in spoken language interpreting since the buffer would have two spoken codes vying for one output . |
| 19 | Why all of them if he 's searching for one slave ? ’ |
| 20 | He is heading for 350 League appearances with Liverpool ( 183 goals ) and 50 FA Cup games . |
| 21 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 22 | What is the point of paying for one day developing ? |
| 23 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 24 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 25 | As an interim measure , the council decided on 14 March to give the nod to about £45 million to keep projects going for one year , ‘ It 's a complex mix , ’ one official said . |
| 26 | She 's only going for one class . |
| 27 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 28 | But of course , I mean , we know little about it they do say if you have had a heart attack it 's no good you know , as soon you get up and you start eating going for five mile walks |
| 29 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 30 | Erm you gave your business card , sorry you gave your buyer 's guide first and Steve raised an objection then about do you find it a problem only selling for one company |