Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUUD Gullit is gearing up for next week 's European Cup final with Marseille with many Milan fans believing it will one of his last games for the Italian giants . |
| 2 | More and more money has been spent on the police , and it has n't worked , and that 's why everybody 's looking round for new initiatives , that 's why Patrick Sheehy who after all is chairman of a very successful commercial corporation , was asked by your government to put forward recommendations , that a lot of very unsuccessful police forces rejected out of hand . |
| 3 | he must be maybe he 's looking out for more work , I admire |
| 4 | WORK in the community is paying off for dedicated staff at Corporation Road Baptist Church in Darlington . |
| 5 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |
| 6 | ‘ Hard to tell what 's going on for sure . ’ |
| 7 | He 's going in for another one next month , but I doubt if that will work either . |
| 8 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 9 | Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week . |
| 10 | Yeah the other the other factor is now that that data is getting on for twelve months old |
| 11 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 12 | Well that is , that 's getting on for two hundred and fifty pages of document . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's getting on for twenty-one years old , and perfectly capable of looking after herself . ’ |
| 14 | And now ’ — The Fat Controller consulted his watch ; an endomorphic gold Rolex had replaced the full hunter — ‘ it 's getting on for nine-thirty . |
| 15 | And erm then a I , Gillian could n't see me on Thursday , and then Friday William is coming up for half term , so er |
| 16 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |
| 17 | It is perhaps ironic that Neal — so critical of the selections of Revie and Robson — arrives back on the England scene at a time when Taylor is coming in for internal FA criticism for picking too many players . |
| 18 | Our organization is crying out for high quality information to fulfil the demands made upon both full- time and lay officials . |
| 19 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said earlier , we have seen only a few small and rather insignificant measures that do not add up to a large impact on our criminal justice system , which is crying out for fundamental change . |
| 20 | Well she 's coming back for more . |
| 21 | Reaction to the latest rise makes it clear that everyone is watching out for another eruption of internal discord on the exchange rate between Sir Alan Walters in Downing Street , and Mr Lawson in the Treasury . |