Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , you ai n't heard no more about applying for the hospital for a job yet then ? |
| 2 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 3 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 4 | I thought he was going for the interview for the job |
| 5 | What he said was he was waiting for the government for better |
| 6 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 7 | But erm if you see some officer floundering for the word for a cabbage or something of that sort I could provide the word and he provided the conversation . |
| 8 | At five o'clock precisely , it was time for Dame Edna to catnap before changing for the evening for some glittering social round . |
| 9 | Tony Long , who sat on a government working party discussing the directive in the mid-1980s while working for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , now runs WWF 's Brussels office . |
| 10 | COUNCILLORS have decided a city painting firm should be banned from working for the district for two years because their work has not come up to scratch . |