Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun] for their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE two winners of round-the-world holidays in our exclusive Courtauld News competition are finalising plans for their dream trips in February . |
| 2 | The nations are demanding compensation for their curbing of forest exploitation by cattle ranching and logging . |
| 3 | ‘ Unfortunately they 're demanding payment for their services . ’ |
| 4 | Well , while airmen from RAF Lyneham are winning medals for their bravery bringing relief to Sarajevo , another detachment from the base are working tirelessly in Africa , to help the starving people of Somalia . |
| 5 | When Ian Thomson and the current editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Devereux were doing fieldwork for their book The Ley Hunter 's Companion , they visited the crypt and found that the needle of their compass maintained a strange rhythmic ‘ jigging ’ motion . |
| 6 | Quite a lot of the students , I noticed , were taking orders for their exhibits during the evening . |
| 7 | Marine biologist Sam LaBudde has presented new evidence to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea that Alaskan Indians are killing walruses for their ivory . |