Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
3 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
4 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
5 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
6 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
7 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
8 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
9 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
10 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
11 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
12 | I er I think erm it 's silly not to have it er when you 're going in for a new set . |
13 | Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ? |
14 | Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot . |
15 | ‘ You 're holding out for a wedding-ring , ’ he said flatly . |
16 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
17 | ‘ We 're crying out for a replacement for Gary Lineker , ’ said Horton , ‘ and a front two of Bull and Shearer does n't sound bad to me . |
18 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
20 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
21 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
22 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
23 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
24 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
25 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
26 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
27 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
28 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
29 | You may have to carry a spare set if you are going out for a full day 's detecting as charge life can be as low as five hours , and ni-cads should not be recharged until they are spent . |
30 | we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with . |