Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll understand your anger and stop what she 's doing for the time being , but that wo n't stop her doing it again when you ca n't see . |
| 2 | Here , do you know what she 's doing for the Body Shop now ? |
| 3 | ‘ I bet she 's heading for the bar — if it 's open yet . ’ |
| 4 | Louise uses both names for business purposes , Torsney when she is working for the Hygiene Training Consultancy specialising in tailor-made courses for schools , social services and private hospitals ; and Pollard in her role as hygiene consultant for B & W Hygiene , which is a manufacturer and supplier to the industry . |
| 5 | She is waiting for the clock downstairs to strike twelve . |
| 6 | Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's not a grain of truth in the Smith stories and it 's unsettling for the club , ’ said Wigan chairman Jack Robinson . |
| 8 | It 's calling for the two men to be released on bail immediately . |
| 9 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 10 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 11 | It 's heading for the coast , taking scum like you back where you came from . ’ |
| 12 | And ‘ On the Piste ’ is at the er Oxford Apollo , starts tonight , and it 's running for the rest of the week . |
| 13 | But pressure group Transport 2000 expressed concern about the lack of controls on maximum distance ; it is calling for the lorries to be restricted to designated routes . |
| 14 | Ferranti-Thomson Sonar Systems UK Ltd , based in Stockport , is to use the T9000 Transputer in the Active Dipping Sonar it is developing for the Royal Navy 's £100m Merlin Anti-Submarine Warfare helicopter . |
| 15 | It is cramping for the author , but if you have contracted with your readers to tell them , through a story , what police work is really like then you must accept this limitation . |
| 16 | It is challenging for the same leadership in applications software . |
| 17 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 18 | The ‘ functions ’ argument is the opposite : it is arguing for the necessity of criminalisation . |
| 19 | ‘ It is upsetting for the cast having worked with her for so long . |
| 20 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 21 | He is searching for the salmon 's loom . |
| 22 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 23 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 24 | ‘ He is studying for the ministry . |
| 25 | Big , bearded and broad-shouldered , he is studying for the ministry , on a campus where black theology is preached and Christ is held to have advocated violence . |
| 26 | He is waiting for the shares to be registered in Pembridge 's name . |
| 27 | Now the strings have gone slack , and he is waiting for the end . |
| 28 | The famous cantata Quando ridi , in which a lover claims he is dying for the sake of a beautiful mouth ? |
| 29 | He has kicked the booze , lost weight , and he is itching for the Italian League to get under way . |
| 30 | He 's looking for the remains of a rucksack which caught fire on a shelf in the shop . |