Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternatives are letter , fax , or looking for the British agent in the ads . |
| 2 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 3 | Tonight , 15 planes are heading for the British Drop Zone . |
| 4 | Tonight , 15 planes are heading for the British Drop Zone . |
| 5 | On arrival at Worcester , Massachusetts , for the match , the earth was still moving for the British side and they lost nine-and-a-half to two-and-a-half , with Boomer winning his foursomes in partnership with his friend Archie Compston , but losing his single . |
| 6 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 7 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 8 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 9 | He was also working for the British Council , writing for foreign magazines and attending functions organized by the Anglo-Swedish Society or the Norwegian Institute , as well as seeing American G.I.s stationed in London — it seemed to him on occasions that every American sergeant wrote verse . |
| 10 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I will give you a minute , no more , to tell me if you are working for the British Government or another . |