Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 2 | At Carrick the Ruffians will be competing for the Lipton Cup , while the cruisers will be in action for the Cardy Castle Cup . |
| 3 | But the disc is probably worth purchasing for the Weill alone , a work which Klemperer commissioned from the composer after attending and enjoying performances of the Dreigroschenoper in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 4 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether the form I 've shown this week has anything to do with not qualifying for the Ryder Cup I do n't know . |
| 6 | For experienced marathoners , it could be qualifying for the Boston Marathon . |
| 7 | They found a significant negative correlation between returns during trading for the S&P500 and the subsequent returns during trading for the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 8 | Few at this conference were a-quiver at the prospect of bidding for the Tilbury to Southend line . |
| 9 | He thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows solution Univel is adopting for the Intel environment , which is apparently on the brink of shipping . |
| 10 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 11 | As early as 1929 , Herbert Morrison of the London County Council was pressing for the L.C.C . |
| 12 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
| 13 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 14 | Three times world champion Ayrton Senna will be driving for the Williams team next season … that 's official … and alongside him on the grid will be Damon Hill … that 's a relief . |
| 15 | In USAC and F5000 , Mario was driving for the Vel 's Parnelli Jones team . |
| 16 | we did have a winner at the weekend … young chap by the name of Nigel Mansell driving for the Oxfordshire based Williams team went and won the South African Grand Prix |
| 17 | However , thought she , it would be right to take the children , which I did — thus proving , not for the first the last time , I 'd be wasting my time applying for the Mensa test . |
| 18 | Nicandra and her naughty girlfriend , Lalage , were dressing for the Hunt Ball . |
| 19 | The Tribunal rejected appeals by lawyers acting for the Marcos 's heirs , including his wife , Imelda Marcos , against earlier decisions by the Swiss cantons of Fribourg and Zürich to give legal assistance to the Philippines government in its efforts to recover the assets , variously estimated as amounting to between $330,000,000 and $500,000,000 . |
| 20 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 21 | The form of the transfer had been prepared by W. H. Hopkins & Co. , acting for the Hammonds , and submitted to Warrens , the building society 's solicitors , for approval . |
| 22 | Exported by Hazlitt Gooden and Fox Ltd to the Herman Shickman Gallery , New York ( acting for the Getty Museum ) at £7,599,000 . |
| 23 | We are passing on a letter we have received from a firm of accountants that is acting for the BSM , asking you to contact them . |
| 24 | In their lavish use of Japanese lacquer coupled with a relatively restrained form they were especially attractive to contemporary taste , and they sold to London dealer Bill Redford for $1.55 million ( £861,100 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , reputedly acting for the London steel magnate Ronald Fuhrer . |
| 25 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 26 | As I turned away someone was shouting for the M.O . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 28 | While many people dabbled , it 's a little known fact even in cave diving circles , that Geoff Yeadon , often diving alone , logged over 18,000 metres of diving looking for the King Pot inlet . |
| 29 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
| 30 | He was looking for the Douglas . |