Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green shoots or otherwise , the effects of recession continue to bite and booksellers and publishers are looking for innovative and more profitable ways of doing business . |
| 2 | The Americans owe the company money and they 're waiting for that and also the , they sold one of the machines at the exhibition so , and they 've had some enquiries , so hopefully they 'll bring some work in . |
| 3 | ‘ Still , it 's only guesswork , ’ Pascoe was being the lawyer — asking for better and more secure evidence . |
| 4 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 6 | But neither of these is fully regulated which means that teachers may perhaps find themselves working for less than fully professional organisations . |