Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 2 | You never thought of O as someone who was with people or who went home with people , and he never seemed to be looking round for someone all the time , which is how most of us must have appeared . |
| 3 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 4 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 5 | There are so many things you 've got to be looking out for in those |
| 6 | Your supposed to be sticking up for me love ! |
| 7 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 8 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 9 | Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days . |
| 10 | Her youngest daughter seems to be going in for nannying . |
| 11 | We never seem to be going in for young players from lower divisions anymore . |
| 12 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 13 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 14 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 15 | A new field of activity seemed to be opening up for him if only he had the courage to grasp the nettle . |
| 16 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 17 | It is not only a matter of picking the right players — schedules and choosing the right programmes will also be important if we are n't to be fighting out for seventh or eighth place in Dublin . |