Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitchcock has yet to concede a goal since stepping in for Dave Beasant . |
| 2 | Those eating less for health reasons now represented 46pc of the total , whereas those stating financial reasons dropped to 18pc from 26p c in 1990 . |
| 3 | ‘ Look at the ground opening up for Randy Sherwood , ’ said Fatty Harris . |
| 4 | Highlights elsewhere include Bad Brains ( with new singer ) opening up for dc Basehead and Consolidated at the Marquee , plus a menagerie of talents such as Spectrum , The Lunachicks , Pooh Sticks , Ween , Seaweed and The Belltower doing their various weird things around town . |
| 5 | A different future is now opening up for Father Martin Flatman following yesterday 's vote at the synod to ordain women as priests . |
| 6 | As she did so she glanced towards the entrance of A and E , checking automatically for Jim Harris 's car — except it would n't be there , she remembered with a twinge of regret . |
| 7 | Greer gearing up for champion status |
| 8 | At the turn of the year , clients dithered about signing up for consultancy projects . |
| 9 | According to Lotus associate director Albert Adams — a world authority on composites and the man who , 30 years ago , was told by Chapman to ‘ learn all about glass-fibre ’ — it could be from the escalating costs of tooling up for pressed-steel car production . |
| 10 | Cities spend an enormous amount of money on building stadiums and bidding competitively for sports franchises ; they predicate their enthusiasm on the assumption ( for which there is no empirical basis ) that a professional sports team enhances a local economy . |
| 11 | Where it has n't , the farmers are using generally for storage areas , that sort of thing a and access . |
| 12 | A spokesperson for the gallery told The Art Newspaper that Assistant curator Marla Prather is filling in for Ms Rosenthal , but the former positions of Messrs Cowart and Moffett remain unfilled . |
| 13 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 14 | Of the other leading contenders for honours , Instonians have boosted their squad with the return of Davy Wilson from the French League , where he figured for Amiens , while Irish U-18 Andrew McBride is back at Annadale slotting in for Vincent Devenney ( working in the US ) . |
| 15 | The public knowledge that such discussion was taking place was damaging enough for Mrs Thatcher ; it was accentuated by signs that there was an active campaign to line up alternative candidates to stand against Heseltine in the second ballot . |
| 16 | The tables were filling up for afternoon tea . |
| 17 | If a lot of moisture collects inside the bag , wipe it off , looking carefully for adult insects as you do so . |
| 18 | He added that fell walkers and ramblers may be teaming up for weekend excursions into the great outdoors . |
| 19 | There is , of course , much talk in the developed world that one of the roles of education is selection — picking out for advancement people who best fit a certain mould . |
| 20 | Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot . |
| 21 | Finally , he is looking out for support material for Christian detached youth workers . |
| 22 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 23 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 24 | For many in North Oxford it will mean paying less for council services at the expense of those who are not as well off . |
| 25 | and who 's going in for emergency surgery and whose chances of coming out are virtually nil anyway . |
| 26 | They 're going in for papers Wednesday . |
| 27 | The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . " |
| 28 | The 69-year-old from Beechwood in Middlesbrough lost a ‘ substantial ’ sum of money after a visit from two men , claiming to be Middlesbrough Council workers measuring up for replacement doors and windows . |
| 29 | The Pakistan Board is still pleading frantically for ICC Secretary Colonel John Stephenson to clear their name . |
| 30 | All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target . |