Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun prp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 2 | Tom and Faye 's parents were living in London for a year , and most of Bill 's family lived in Cairns , so there was to be no Russell or Hamilton family Christmas this year . |
| 3 | Peter and Jean Revers were so excited by the project they decided they would try living in America for a while as the new venture would clearly need a business manager . |
| 4 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
| 5 | He 's signed up to go racing in America for a fistful of dollars … and few a for dollars more has got a new book out … |
| 6 | ‘ He 's probably staying in Plumford for a while . |
| 7 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 8 | You know again it was a professional company it start with we were doing in Manchester for a week 's training . |
| 9 | There 's been a show running in London for a while called ‘ Good Rockin' Tonight ’ which is the story — probably a touch glamorised , since he wrote it himself — of Jack Good , the ‘ discoverer ’ of many of the British rock'n'roll legends , including Cliff Richard , Billy Fury and Marty Wilde . |
| 10 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
| 11 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |