Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 2 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 3 | ‘ You know the land that 's coming up for auction ? ’ |
| 4 | However , Jane loved dancing and the new life that was opening up for her , but when she was offered work in 1907 at the English Theatre , Paris , she was frankly scared . |
| 5 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 6 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 7 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 8 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 9 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 11 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |
| 12 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 13 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |