Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 2 | It is challenging for the same leadership in applications software . |
| 3 | This is particularly important if there are others bidding for the same house . |
| 4 | Slater , of Redcar Road , Middlesbrough , admitted reckless driving , assault and criminal damage in April and was jailed for four months and banned from driving for the same period . |
| 5 | The method is for , say , a West Indian to pretend to apply for an advertised job and then to be followed a little later by a white person applying for the same job . |
| 6 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 7 | I said vs West Ham that Whelan and Deane we too similar , both looking for the same ball — or not feeding off each other . |
| 8 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 9 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 10 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 12 | In following the same clues as her , he might well be heading for the same destination . |
| 13 | Heading for the same ship again , he was once more ignored by the guards and was fed by the crew before being told to return the next day . |
| 14 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 15 | ‘ Heading for the same place as yours when you see who he 's with . |
| 16 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 17 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 18 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 19 | First decide whether you wish to make a portrait or landscape design , and check that the card will stand up properly if you are opting for the latter shape . |
| 20 | Cautiously opting for the latter view , Larry bends the laws of astrophysics to construct a theory of subjectivity through the metaphoric lens of the uncertainty principle : |
| 21 | TULFARRIS : Consistent last season but this term has saved best running for the all weather tracks . |
| 22 | There must also be no opportunity for anyone to claim that you have been given , or are giving , preferential treatment which puts you or others at an advantage , for example , over other organisations who may be tendering for the same work or other colleagues working for the organisation . |
| 23 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
| 24 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 25 | Sheffield Wednesday boss Trevor Francis is hoping for the same kind of bargain with Tishkov as Ferguson discovered when he paid just £650,000 for Kanchelskis . |
| 26 | To an extent , the stormy exterior mirrored the relationship of their employers , Bernard and Laura ; but underneath everyone was shooting for the same goal . |
| 27 | An athletically-built 5′ 9″ , he had played club cricket for South Melbourne , working for the latter club as an office clerk . |
| 28 | ‘ We are all working for the same country , after all . |
| 29 | ‘ We are all working for the same goal , ’ he says . |
| 30 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |