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

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1 But if if we find anybody 's a persistent discounter they 're causing trouble for the person who comes to resell .
2 A group which is raising money for an operation on a Bosnian girl has lost contact with her family .
3 One moment she was cleaning floors for a living , the next receiving a pair of brass candlesticks from the King and Queen of Sweden or making small talk with the President of Somewhere or Other .
4 Mark Little is Joe Mangle 's alter ego , the real-life actor who was doing comedy for nearly a decade before Neighbours .
5 The plaintiff there was claiming damages for her son 's death brought about , she alleged , by a blow from a police truncheon .
6 Also Martin Foyle , now of course , there , there is a rumour that Ipswich Town are after him , but at the moment he 's scoring goals for Oxford ; five in the last five games , he 's scored two , and also a mention for Steve McLaren .
7 Then at the end of the quarter you were getting dividend for twenty people .
8 This includes any local authority which is providing accommodation for a child at the time an application is made and anyone caring for the child when proceedings are commenced .
9 This month she is visiting Britain for the first time in years .
10 And the Thompson woman who was administering glass for eight months , only it did n't take , so Freddie Bywaters had to stick a knife into the man near Ilford Station .
11 The correspondence has even led to romance — the daughter hopes to marry a man who is serving life for shooting his wife.Richard Barnett reports :
12 The arrhythmia is sustained and occurs more commonly in patients with a reduced ejection fraction who are receiving treatment for VT .
13 Miss Jarman demanded of the tall bony female who was returning glare for glare without any sign of backing down .
14 Craft aid : A craft fair in aid of the Claire House Appeal which is raising funds for a hospice for youngsters , will be held at Heswall Hall , Heswall , on Saturday Nov 7 .
15 SPAIN is the latest launchpad for Operation BlueLine — an all-out assault on the fishing vessel paint market which is netting results for International on both sides of the Atlantic .
16 For example , a child who is sociable , and is likely to benefit from social and linguistic interactions with other children , may be best placed in an ordinary classroom but with special periods devoted to those areas of language which are giving cause for concern .
17 Eddie 's betrayal of his cousins is also revenge — he was doing it to prevent Rodolpho marrying Catherine primarily , but at the same time he was getting revenge for all the problems that his cousins had caused him , especially regarding Catherine .
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