Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it has n't , the farmers are using generally for storage areas , that sort of thing a and access . |
| 2 | Millions of people have already discovered the magic of walking and are walking regularly for fitness , slimness and health . |
| 3 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 4 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 5 | Oh they 're coming here for Christmas . |
| 6 | Which is fair enough because one of the things I mentioned about the benefits of er or the things we should try to achieve in retirement or secure in retirement , is that if you 've had a challenge in life whilst you 're working then for goodness sake do n't drop it when you retire . |
| 7 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |
| 8 | Home Office minister David Mellor says the fact that the official figure is starting to catch up shows that more people are coming forward for help . |
| 9 | I like to think my name will be hanging there for prosperity . |
| 10 | This sign announced that The Victorian Fitted Kitchen Company would soon be opening there for business . |
| 11 | The client would usually be looking secretly for guidance , and would be likely not just to sell out of his Rolls Royce shares , but to reinvest his original £500 with any profit , plus say £1,000 further capital in the stock proposed . |
| 12 | ‘ And if I could make one more suggestion — if I ask to see you at ten in the morning , and you wander in at ten-thirty , you will be looking elsewhere for employment . |
| 13 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 14 | I wo n't be going home for lunch next week , or the rest of this week . |
| 15 | They are fishing mainly for espada ( scabbard fish ) which is caught four to five kilometres off shore in depths of over 800m , using lines with about 150 hooks . |
| 16 | Pompey won three two at the County Ground in November and are chasing hard for promotion themselves . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Clare were waiting anxiously for Angel 's return . |
| 18 | And you never know when your husband is coming home for dinner , or if he 's coming home alone , or with his secretary or with a friend — I mean , you have nothing in your life to plan , not even that night , let alone the next day or the weekend . |
| 19 | It 's comin' yet for a' that , |
| 20 | It 's comin' yet for a' that , |
| 21 | I wish finally in this introduction to say something of the nature of the question which feminism is raising here for Christianity . |
| 22 | Until today the Milton Keynes Kings ice hockey team , ranked 13th in the country , was heading literally for meltdown . |
| 23 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 24 | The rather unco-operative harbourmaster intervened and said he was coming alongside for water and that we should get out . |
| 25 | British Aerospace lost 12p later in the day at 561p on market rumours that the Rover 2000 production plant was closing early for Christmas because of low-level business . |