Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's convinced that my lover and I are waiting eagerly for that event , so he 's written a will that leaves me destitute . |
| 2 | If you are aiming almost for pure comedy , then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense . |
| 3 | Wherever you advertise , on television , radio and posters , or in the press and magazines you are competing desperately for people 's attention . |
| 4 | You are looking especially for cracks in walls , bulging or leaning walls and chimney breasts ; damp , and rotting or infested wood ; signs of movement , or subsidence ; bulging or sagging floors and ceilings ; broken , soft or hollow plaster ; blocked or inadequate drains , ; adequate and safe water , gas and electrical services . |
| 5 | If you are going abroad for less than three months , you can cash all your pension orders when you come home . |
| 6 | If you are going abroad for three months or more , tell your local social security office well in advance . |
| 7 | If you are going abroad for an extended period , the other option is to take your dog with you . |
| 8 | Pensions can be paid to an overseas address , if you are going abroad for three months or more . |
| 9 | When you come to retirement age , whilst not suggesting that you are past it , you are planning ahead for the time where you may not be quite as capable as were . |
| 10 | We are investing heavily for the future growth of the company , and this year we look forward to the opening of the tenth Savacentre — our first new hypermarket since our Sheffield store opened in 1990 . |
| 11 | In 1992 , a 2½ million lead after recession and poll tax means unless we have a centre-left reconstruction , we are heading inexorably for a Tory fifth term . |
| 12 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |
| 13 | The building materials side is primarily issues held by the er , the private sector and issue of the waste by factories is something which is the subject of er new er regulations which are often advice which is expected shortly from the Department of Trade and Industry and and we are awaiting obviously for that to come out to see what should happen and therefore our advice to you is that we should contin continue to keep these issues under review through the waste er advisory matter the waste er Planning and Policy panel . |
| 14 | We are working together for a reformed and revised Near East , and our two movements complement each other . ’ |
| 15 | We are asking now for answers to the second question . |
| 16 | ‘ We are pressing hard for a meeting between BAe 's finance director and our lead investor as we are aware that time is slipping by , ’ said Mr Hooke . |
| 17 | They are fishing mainly for espada ( scabbard fish ) which is caught four to five kilometres off shore in depths of over 800m , using lines with about 150 hooks . |
| 18 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 19 | They want a baby they 're not concerned whether it 's going to have spina-bifida or have som , they are looking forward for a perfect baby . |
| 20 | Work is well on , but they are looking particularly for an Aldis gun sight for the project . |
| 21 | Over the last four years the Midland Group have provided a crew for the Vintage Train on several occasions and for last September also handled their own marketing and ticket sales , as they are doing again for this October . |