Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pompey won three two at the County Ground in November and are chasing hard for promotion themselves . |
| 2 | Millions of people have already discovered the magic of walking and are walking regularly for fitness , slimness and health . |
| 3 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 4 | Biopsy specimens were also obtained from five patients ( mean age 38 years , range 35–40 years ) with familial adenomatous polyposis who had previously undergone total abdominal colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis and were attending regularly for follow up . |
| 5 | The UK government has deferred funding support for a major road scheme through the rainforests of the Central African Republic , and is calling instead for a thorough environmental impact assessment . |
| 6 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 7 | In many places the Trust is resisting the urge automatically to replant and is aiming instead for natural regeneration by creating the right conditions for species such as birch , ash and beech to self-seed . |
| 8 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 9 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 10 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 12 | Australian 250 rider David Evelyn has just collided with Cadalora in qualifying and is heading straight for a concrete wall . |
| 13 | Julian whose home is at Seamer , near Scarborough is currently the assistant cruise director in the Caribbean and is returning home for the presentation ceremony next month . |
| 14 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |
| 15 | Wastell bought a house in Bury before 1490 and was living there for much of the remainder of his life . |
| 16 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 17 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |
| 18 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the other seemed to have finished his duties and was waiting patiently for the movie-person to regain a most equitable composure . |
| 20 | The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot . |