Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 2 | Oh , yes , you 're just the sort of bloke we 're looking for for the guards . |
| 3 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 4 | What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties . |
| 5 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
| 6 | Keep the date free in your diary — October 13th , 1991 , at the National Agricultural Showground , Stoneleigh , Warwickshire — for a once-in-a-lifetime experience people will be talking about for the next 100 years . |
| 7 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 8 | Whatever , I 'm gon na for a piss first |
| 9 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 11 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 13 | It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years . |
| 14 | The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) . |
| 15 | So with eight of the world 's top golfers within five shots of each other and eight different nationalities represented , the stage was set for the grandstand finish which Hammond Wilde had been dreaming about for the best part of a year . |
| 16 | As I as I was talking about for a new pattern |