Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided .
2 1 You are preparing for us the scripts for the following items :
3 It attracted hundreds of people who were looking for something a little bit different to eat this Christmas .
4 Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful .
5 But among the oldies who have given the project their support are Malcolm McLaren and Elvis Costello , which suggests that the ENO is looking for something a little off the beaten operatic track , not to say strange and unusual .
6 ‘ Death is waiting for me no less , ’ he said low and gently into her ear , ‘ and for you .
7 BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators .
8 There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television .
9 The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign .
10 Supported almost unanimously by her business and financial community , Britain , in her own eyes , was creating for herself no more and no less than an enormous home market comparable to that of the United States and larger than that of the new trading giant , Japan .
11 She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past .
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