Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , he said he was a writer , and I said I was looking for plays to invest in and why did n't he write one about his friend , and a couple of months later he 'd written something pretty splendid , had n't he ? |
| 2 | with a pair of binoculars , turning round looking for planes coming in |
| 3 | They were waiting for Nicandra to come in . |
| 4 | For example , some local authorities produce their financial statements very quickly ; on the other hand , they are able to do this by including more estimates of accrued expenditure rather than waiting for invoices to come in . |
| 5 | She 's waiting for Tom to come in , the young nurse realised . |
| 6 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 7 | If there is to be a major publicity launch of some kind , or you 're going to have , if you 've got an advert in some magazine , journal , newspaper or whatever , and you 're asking for people to call in , please let the switchboard know who to put the calls through to , and what it 's likely to be about . |