Example sentences of "be [pron] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Are you staying for the dress rehearsal tomorrow ? " |
| 2 | Are you getting for the Lego ? |
| 3 | Are you writing for the public ? |
| 4 | Are you looking for the interaction where you learn something about the culture from talking to the people or do you want minimal interaction where simply you visit a place , and you stay in your little bubble or ghetto with people of your own tour company , you do everything together and you never come into contact with local people . |
| 5 | ‘ What are you wearing for the party ? ’ asked Irene , as they cleared away the tea things . |
| 6 | What are you doing for the environment ? |
| 7 | Finally I went to James Roose-Evans , who 'd adapted 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and said , ‘ What are you doing for the rest of your life ? ’ |
| 8 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 9 | Are we asking for the experimentally and/or theoretically impossible ? |
| 10 | Perhaps it was after all impossibly naive and idealistic to expect that frontiers would cease to be watched , but just what price are we paying for the security effected by border controls ? |
| 11 | what are we having for the tea . |
| 12 | Were you waiting for the school |
| 13 | What 's he going for the world record on , for appearing in most films , or |
| 14 | Is he betting for the bookies ? |
| 15 | First , they wanted to see if he could pass himself off as Swedish , or if there was anybody working for the enemy who might have an inkling of his presence or identity . |
| 16 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind the policy modifications imposed on the Urban Programme after 1979 , what kind of supportive environment was it providing for the cities by the mid-to-late 1980s ? |