Example sentences of "be collecting [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then she was planning to go on the stage and was already reputed to be collecting points for the Equity card . |
| 2 | I am collecting material for an MSW dissertation on the role of the probation service in influencing factors affecting the sentencing of 16- and 17-year-olds in a youth court of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 3 | David 's been collecting cones for more than thirty years and since then he 's accumulated some real beauties . |
| 4 | Now let's get right , you are collecting things for Bosnia ? |
| 5 | The Alton group are collecting equipment for them , and welcome donations in cash or kind to help . |
| 6 | PARENTS at one of Scotland 's largest state schools are collecting names for a petition to call for an opt-out ballot . |
| 7 | The protesters , from the Peace Train Organisation which has run six trains along the Dublin to Belfast line , the main rail link between north and south , were collecting signatures for a peace declaration in Dublin 's city centre yesterday . |
| 8 | I only went once to visit the Greens and then I was collecting money for the Missionary Fund to which most people contributed a copper or two , with young Mrs Thwaites from the neighbouring farm to us , High Birk Hatt . |
| 9 | He was collecting notes for a book of random observations , a Thackeray-like Sketchbook , called An American Journey . |
| 10 | William of Malmesbury , who was collecting material for his histories at Canterbury at this time , put the news of their discovery into his Gesta Regum , and inserted the complete texts under the year 1072 into his slightly later Gesta Pontificum . |