Example sentences of "and [noun] be [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easter , eight o'clock , half-seven my brother and sister are looking for Easter eggs in the house . |
| 2 | Pubs like these in Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire and Berkshire are going for record figures . |
| 3 | And Sarna 's striving for excellence extends far beyond simply supplying a technologically advanced product . |
| 4 | Mind and body are preparing for war . |
| 5 | By the early-Eighties though , Adidas and Umbro were competing for business and in the process developing ever more complex designs . |
| 6 | And people are asking for advice and blessings , telling him about the problems they trust him to solve . |
| 7 | Agents Mathews and Goodman are looking for rents of around ££10 a sq ft for space in Martin 's Building as it becomes free for letting with a range of suites up to 14,000 sq ft being available . |
| 8 | The larger , bolder birds such as magpies , crows and jackdaws were searching for food on the fairways — on one occasion a golf ball landed near to a crow who nonchalantly moved to one side to avoid the missile . |
| 9 | Lyle and Robbins were advertising for staff again . |
| 10 | Bishops have slipped in the last two months following their excellent run around the turn of the year , and Dunn is looking for points to lift his side into the top half of the table . |
| 11 | Oh look the boys and girls are coming for play time . |
| 12 | Companies from the UK , Canada , USA , Finland , Germany and France are tendering for schemes in Hungary , while the British company GEC-Alshom is bidding for a dry store contract for Czechoslovakia 's Dukovany plant . |
| 13 | The beauty spot is a regular haunt for young couples and detectives are appealing for witnesses to the attack to come forward . |
| 14 | And police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anyone acting suspiciously . |
| 15 | And Roland was looking for sources for Ash 's Garden of Proserpina . |
| 16 | The figures also showed more men and women are training for ordination . |
| 17 | Liverpool and Everton are battling for Duncan Ferguson , Dundee United 's rising star and a Scots international . |
| 18 | The Thatcher ideal of home ownership for all has been abandoned , and ministers are searching for ways to boost the supply of private rented property . |
| 19 | Hopper and Fonda were looking for finance , although all that existed at the time was an eight-page outline for the plot , which Fonda had been toting around . |
| 20 | Only then did he disclose to John Macnab that he and Margaret were leaving for Germany next morning , 26 August , the day on which the powers of detention and internment would come into effect . |