Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know Liverpool are returning from the land of the lost and Aston Villa are looking good for a shot at the title . |
| 2 | Many daughters who are caring full-time for a parent or parents at home have financial worries too . |
| 3 | action round-up now … and pride of place this week goes to Oxford 's Eddie Jordan … his grand prix team are getting ready for a new formula one season … today at Silverstone the new car was unveiled |
| 4 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 5 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 6 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 7 | Then place a nearly-full pack of cards out on a table or , if you are performing this for a number of children , on a board with the cards lightly attached to it with scotch tape . |
| 8 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 9 | for er , I 'm selling that for a hundred and thirty |
| 10 | When I 'm getting ready for a party — you know , you have a bath some time in the early afternoon or evening , you work out what to wear , you lay the things out on the bed that you vaguely know you look nice in , you roughly know what make-up suits you … well , that 's the point when I start thinking about my leg , and whether it will show . |
| 11 | He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |
| 13 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 14 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 15 | As debts mount in his fast-growing Fininvest media group , Italy 's Silvio Berlusconi is getting ready for a big stockmarket flotation of the group 's publishing businesses , to raise capital . |
| 16 | One of the country 's top orchid growers is getting ready for a summer show … by hiding his plants away in his garage . |
| 17 | If she 's getting that for a finger , I 'm gon na see Mr the American , and flog him a policy . |
| 18 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 19 | Christopher , of Wellington Way , Renfrew , is studying part-time for a BSc degree . |
| 20 | I have been contemplating this for a while and would love advice from other knitters who have tried it ! |
| 21 | By dint of a couple of birdies and a fortunate eagle on the long fourteenth hole , Jack was looking good for a share of the prize money . |
| 22 | Quite involuntarily her body was getting ready for a fight . |
| 23 | he was sodding this for a game of soldiers |
| 24 | A familiar street hawker , usually shifting lighters at two for a pound was offering three for a pound . |