Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a year , in the summer of 1987 , Brannen was competing for Britain in the European Junior Championships . |
| 2 | Neufville ran for Cambridge Harriers in South East London though she opted for competing for Jamaica in the prestigious games . |
| 3 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 4 | Martyn Grimley , another Great Britain player , will be appearing for Brooklands in the Second Division . |
| 5 | Jack was a native of Crook in County Durham and played for the local amateur side as a junior before signing for Newcastle at the age of 17 . |
| 6 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 7 | There were signs of battle in the churned-up mounds of Saxon warrior chiefs , ravaged by tanks training for D-Day in the sandy heaths behind the village . |
| 8 | Did you notice , Sir Edmund , when we were trying to force the door of the church , how Rachel and her mother hurried along shouting for Damien through the window ? |
| 9 | sunny California may sound good … but for swimmers like Jaime King it 's all hard work … this summer she 'll be swimming for Britain in the European championships … she 's just won the senior title … and on top of all the training has also been taking her GCSE 's at school … |
| 10 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 11 | The train pulled out , heading for Loughton along the green valley of the Roding . |
| 12 | heading for Durham in the rain . |
| 13 | The three-man gang , wearing uniforms and driving a car with a blue flashing light , stopped the lorry heading for Dover on the A2 near Cobham , Kent . |
| 14 | ‘ He could just be heading for Russia via the Czech border … ’ |
| 15 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
| 16 | Hundreds of New Age vehicles are heading for Stonehenge for the weekend , but they 'll be turned away and could head north into Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | Heading for Rothley at the double |
| 18 | A St. Annes car heading for Blackpool along the long straight of Lytham Road before the First World War : notice the absence of traffic ! |
| 19 | Oakes is going for Ballasarly in the two thirty five Cheltenham , Leslie 's going for Leotard that 's the top weight in the first at one twenty five er oh in the second . |
| 20 | In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres … |
| 21 | These three men were waiting for Karen on the night of the accident . |
| 22 | you are the journalist from the New York Times who was waiting for Karen on the night she died . |
| 23 | But then came the awful night when the Station Master was waiting for Peter in the station yard . |
| 24 | Rose was waiting for McAllister at the rectory . |
| 25 | Colonel Carson , the SAS commander , was waiting for Duncan as the Range Rover pulled up . |
| 26 | And the woman of Chicago , Illinois , who chose to punish the incumbent senator from that state , Alan Dickson , for voting for Thomas in the Senate hearings . |
| 27 | Violent disturbances erupted during June and July in the Mediterranean port of Narbonne , among groups of Harkis — ethnic Algerians who had acquired French citizenship after fighting for France in the Algerian independence struggle . |
| 28 | He energetically supported various social reforms in England , and in 1860 he spent several months with British volunteers fighting for Garibaldi in the Risorgimento ( his mother was of Italian descent ) . |
| 29 | There was certainly plenty of anti-Athenian feeling , for some Thessalians fighting for Athens at the battle of Tanagra in 457 ( p. 42 ) changed sides ( Thuc. i. 107 ; Diod. xi.79 ) . |
| 30 | More than 100 police earlier in the day prevented demonstrators from laying wreaths on the graves of German pilots of the Condor region who died fighting for Franco during the Spanish Civil war . |