Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , by analysing a sample of customer addresses by ACORN he or she can set sales targets for each ACORN type ; and by allowing for the population in each type in each sales territory , he or she can set quotas which relate directly to the potential for business in each area . |
| 2 | Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all . |
| 3 | But I was not surprised when , several years later , I read that Sir Robert Armstrong , appearing for the government in the Spycatcher trial in Sydney , had admitted to cross-examining counsel that he had been what he called ‘ economical with the truth ’ . |
| 4 | Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone . |
| 5 | The conference also suggested that the standard requisitions on title be amended to include a reference to whether a seller 's solicitor was also acting for the lender in the redemption of the mortgage . |
| 6 | Thereafter he received an annual salary of twenty pounds a year each year down to 1262 and can be traced acting for the king in litigation until 1267 . |
| 7 | Jeff started training for the marathon in October last year , and was running 50 miles a week when he suffered a hip injury . |
| 8 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 9 | We started looking for the hole in the long summer holidays . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 11 | The following example program segment reads through a list of names looking for the name in " name$ . |
| 12 | All over the City , people were killing each other , having torrid affairs in seedy motel rooms , stealing bodies from the morgue , working late on revolutionary inventions , hiding out from the cops , waiting for the locksmith , running numbers , rock ‘ n ’ rolling at the high-school hop , praying at the bedsides of white-haired mothers , looking for the uranium in the wine cellar , describing their dreams to sage psychoanalysts , rehearsing for the big show , escaping across the rooftops . |
| 13 | So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful . |
| 14 | JULIO ANGUITA , the leader of the Spanish Communist Party , is looking for the thief in Madrid who smashed his windscreen and broke into his car for the third time . |
| 15 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 16 | But looking for the truth in nature walks ? |
| 17 | Giardia infection can be diagnosed by looking for the parasite in the stools . |
| 18 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 19 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 20 | With Monzer al-Kassar and Rifat Assad fronting for the group in Europe , it fell to Kenaan , as the man on the spot , to supervise the supply end of the business , to keep the Bekaa peaceful and productive , to suppress dissent , discourage private enterprise and mediate disputes . |
| 21 | As the results in Figure 5 show , before correcting for the imbalance in the distribution of low risk patients ( stone free >nine months ) between the three groups , there was no significant difference in the actuarial recurrence rates between the ursodeoxycholic acid and diet groups — despite a twofold difference in mean values . |
| 22 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 23 | The possibility of a child being born with a handicap is not only an emotional worry but caring for the child in the future will be expensive . |
| 24 | Women are peculiarly fitted for the onerous task of patiently and skilfully caring for the patient in faithful obedience to the physician 's orders . |
| 25 | The couple caring for the baby in their Middlesbrough home realise there is a long way to go . |
| 26 | Tonight we 're heading for the finish in George Town . |
| 27 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 28 | But he was n't going to risk going for the green in two — he 's a gambler , but he 's not stupid , not with a one-stroke lead — and so he hit a wedge for his second shot short of the lake and then a 155-yard 9-iron directly over the flag for his approach . |
| 29 | I recall leading for the Opposition in the early 1970s on the Fair Trading Act 1973 . |
| 30 | Waiting for the upturn in scotch whisky sales |