Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] his [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 3 | RIGHT : Chief teacher Kenny Roberts has been scaring his pupils for years with his killer look . |
| 4 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 5 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 6 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 7 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 8 | He 's been running his shop for the past 30 years , selling everything from garters to saddles ! |
| 9 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 10 | ( John draws deeply on his joint and seems to be gathering his strength for an onslaught . |
| 11 | Oxford United will be announcing their new manager in the morning — we 'll be revealing his name for the first time , tonight on Central News . |
| 12 | As a captain with literary leanings , he 'll no doubt be saving his version for the eventual book of memoirs . |
| 13 | On Tuesday in Strasbourg he will be renewing his calls for a crackdown on EC agricultural fraud . |
| 14 | Myers may be mining his adolescence for material , but at the same time he 's giving a continent 's youth big-screen justification for its own sedentary existence . |
| 15 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 16 | Somebody must be doing his mending for him , as she was doing Willis 's , and the idea gave her a stab of pain which she could n't relate to her other feelings . |
| 17 | He was probably displeased too that she would be joining his friends for dinner . |
| 18 | What was he supposed to be shaking his head for ? |
| 19 | The former Cowdenbeath manager , John Brownlie , who was sacked in controversial circumstances last May , will be making his case for unfair dismissal at an industrial tribunal in Edinburgh next week . |
| 20 | The former Cowdenbeath manager , John Brownlie , sacked in controversial circumstances last May , will be making his case for unfair dismissal at an industrial tribunal in Edinburgh next week . |
| 21 | He seems to be making his demands for concessions from the industry on the basis that otherwise he will go for a ban . |
| 22 | I got a letter from Lee saying I 'd be carrying his bag for the 1968 Alcan at Birkdale and for the World Matchplay . |
| 23 | Intelligence Agency , if he had been twiddling his thumbs for a week , he might just have been a little determined himself . |
| 24 | Bernard Jacobson , who is celebrating twenty-five years of activity , is devoting his programme for an entire calendar year to exhibitions of historic and modern British landscape painting . |
| 25 | Livesey is quite capable of looking after that particular angle , and no doubt he is sharpening his pencil for this purpose already . |
| 26 | But Michael Barnes is keeping his plans for that celebration time secret — the most important thing right now is getting the Opera House all lit up again for Jack and the Beanstalk . |
| 27 | Stephen Windsor is challenging his conviction for armed robbery and attempted murder . |
| 28 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 29 | In the story , Jim Corbett is describing his hunt for the Chowgarh tigress who killed at least 64 human beings between 1925 and 1930 before their first and last meeting took place . |
| 30 | CONVICTED Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky , who once commanded a $1 billion war chest , is suing his wife for $1m a year in alimony to bolster his sagging finances . |