Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expect good figures on Wednesday from hotel and brewing group Bass , booking in for profits at around £530m , up 23%. , helped by better news on the hotel front . |
| 2 | No I , I do n't have time , it really does mean signing up for sort of long |
| 3 | Make better use of your base cabinets by fixing slide-out towel racks to the doors , and by installing swivel storage shelves to do away with all that groping around for things at the back . |
| 4 | The early canals were contour canals , winding about for miles in order to circumvent a hill ; but the later ones were made as straight as possible by means of cuttings and embankments . |
| 5 | Frano Botica and Martin Crompton form a new half back partnership with one of Wigan 's outstanding youngsters , Mick Cassidy , filling in for Dermott at hooker . |
| 6 | Now there 's a letter in there that wants filling in for Alex for Alison . |
| 7 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 8 | I do n't like dressing up for sex as if it 's a performance . |
| 9 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 10 | And I take it the police still have his case more or less open , and will be looking out for news of him , in case there 's something more in it . |
| 11 | But the next day was doleful : Mr Evans in a bad mood because he had eaten too much and Auntie Lou tiptoeing about for fear of making things worse and so annoying him further . |
| 12 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 13 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 14 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 15 | BOURNEMOUTH Golden Oldies Hockey Festival International event for the over 35s with teams from Fiji , New Zealand , Canada and West Germany bullying off for supremacy in the week long tournament . |
| 16 | But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " . |
| 17 | Drivers are lining up for hours in front of petrol stations guarded by sullen , sometimes angry soldiers who keep control by firing their automatic weapons into the air . |
| 18 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |
| 19 | He saved one of the Signals Waafs from getting into trouble through not turning up for duty on time , simply by staying at his post until she finally did appear . |
| 20 | In the most extreme case , Abdelatif Benazzi even managed to play for two countries in the competition , turning out for Morocco in the qualifiers and France in the final stages . |
| 21 | Well I suppose with him going out for walks from here he knows that |
| 22 | She did n't smoke and never drank , preferring to spend her free time reading , watching television , visiting friends or going out for supper in modest bistros . |
| 23 | As a matter of fact a fre fellow named lived in here and he was a traveller to er George he 's one of the best , biggest rim lockmakers in the town , anyway , they 're on this erm now and er he was going round for orders for regulars of his , for his firm and somebody , one day , asked him look here , we 've got a little awkward job here , you know anybody the can you do it ? |
| 24 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 25 | Others were queueing up for cracks at goal as well , notably Jon Newsome on at least two occasions , as well as Speed and Bats . |
| 26 | And this she did , holding on for support to the iron rail that rimmed the wooden edge of the cart and which helped to keep the rags in place . |
| 27 | Getting on for 50% of the money spent on advertising goes into television , and more like 70% in big agencies . |
| 28 | This improvement was substantial : from slightly worse than myopic on the first attempt , the average improved to getting on for 40% of the difference between the optimal and the myopic on the second . |
| 29 | Ian Brown 's drop goal increased the lead to four points , but the last quarter belonged exclusively to the visitors with Stephen Cowan , Maurice Field , Richard Cullen , Colin Wilkinson and Graeme Copeland all getting in for tries from which full-back Colin Wilkinson converted two of them . |
| 30 | rising up for air like a diver , |