Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 2 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 3 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 4 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 5 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 6 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 7 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 8 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 9 | ‘ You sound as if you 're interviewing me for a job . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 11 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 12 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 13 | They 're doing it for a dictionary for erm sch for students . |
| 14 | We 're taking you for a check-up at the Royal Infirmary . ’ |
| 15 | So if we 've got somebody earning nine thousand , they 're going to want to know why they 're insuring themselves for a hundred thousand on living insurance benefit . |
| 16 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 17 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 20 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 21 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 22 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 23 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 24 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 25 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 26 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 27 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 28 | The first customers for the new service will be using it for a variety of applications . |
| 29 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 30 | Sweden and Costa Rica must already be bracing themselves for a high tide . |