Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security officials concede the enormity of their task as there are around 4,000 militants in the Valley trained in the use of arms and explosives by Pakistan while another 3,000 are waiting for the winter snows to melt so they can cross over into India from Pakistan . |
| 2 | Strong figures are due from Eastern Electricity on Thursday with profits set to rise from £15.4m to £24m , while top-end estimates for Scottish Hydro-Electric are heading for £40m-£50m , up from £27m last year . |
| 3 | Others have since arrived without permission , reinforcing rumours that hundreds more are heading for the county , after being evicted from festival sites in Somerset . |
| 4 | the cabinet , there it is showing on the left-hand wall there , Lot number ninety five is showing for a hundred pounds , at one hundred and ten , twenty at one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and thirty , forty , fifty , sixty one seventy for the lady sir one eighty standing one ninety two hundred , two twenty for the lady two hundred and twenty , two forty two sixty two hundred and sixty and it 's still with the lady and selling for two hundred and sixty pounds eight forty , thank you , two sixty . |
| 5 | Lot number one three two Lot number one three two is showing for you , Lot number one three two for thirty pounds , at thirty , thirty five , forty , forty five , fifty pounds , fifty five standing at fifty five I 've got and I shall sell at fifty five , sixty in front sixty , sixty five pounds seventy going on ? |
| 6 | ‘ Should n't these two be heading for bed ? ’ |
| 7 | That 'll be that 's all that 's collecting for that er what do they call it ? |
| 8 | ‘ All three were working for INCUBUS — or had been until recently . |
| 9 | The new Public Appointments Unit set up in 1975 to revivify the List was run by Jonathan Charkham , a well-heeled nomad who had begun his career as a barrister , went into industry , and by the late eighties was working for the Bank of England . |
| 10 | Lot number seventy seven Lot seventy seven Lot number seventy seven is showing for you and I 've got a hundred pounds offered for it and ten , twenty , at one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds , one twenty , you all done ? |
| 11 | In the early eighteen hundreds were boring for coal at Woodhall . |
| 12 | Within weeks three innocent people were dead and two more were fighting for their lives in hospital . |