Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are pitching for an account , appearing on television or radio , making a significant speech , always have a company Gofer with you . |
| 2 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 3 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 4 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 5 | Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago . |
| 6 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 7 | In view of the interaction between State and occupational scheme benefits , we are pressing for an approach which allows flexibility in the choice of retirement date . |
| 8 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |
| 9 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 10 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 11 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |
| 12 | The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations . |
| 13 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 14 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 15 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 16 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 17 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 18 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 19 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 20 | And all journalists , all broadcasters , all people in the media , are looking for an angle . |
| 21 | Drawings can be blamed when er there is actually nothing wrong and people are looking for an excuse blame from themselves . |
| 22 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 23 | Warrants to subscribe may be attractive to higher rate taxpayers who are looking for an opportunity for capital growth but without current income . |
| 24 | Selby are looking for an allocation of twice that , and if you a if you accept that the County are correct and I can see no reason to erm to vary from that , in fact our submissions er set out very clearly why we think every parameter is stretched to its limits , i if you st i if you accept that then at the very least I think its incumbent upon Selby to put forward a cogent argument for doubling that figure . |
| 25 | Answer guide : Here we are looking for an understanding of the relationships between current assets and their liquidity and current liabilities as a short-term measure . |
| 26 | it is advisable , if you are looking for an investment , to buy the best . |
| 27 | If you are looking for an essence ( or a blend of essences ) for a health problem or for skin care , consult the therapeutic cross-references or the skin care chart in this chapter . |
| 28 | People are looking for an answer like this . ’ |
| 29 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 30 | Not as such so they 're pressing for an answer , the factory , but erm , he came back and said we 'd need firm prices , per kilo price , lump sum price not acceptable , customer offer of sixteen Deutschmark per kilo from , for twelve to fourteen with delivery , your request for those credit verified five months not acceptable , you offer to deliver in eight weeks in which case and we 'd get till twelve weeks , please confirm . |