Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 2 | The Festival Court has a different activity taking place each day , while the Centre and surrounding ‘ competition ’ courts will see the best women players from 56 nations competing for what is the premier team prize in women 's tennis . |
| 3 | We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services . |
| 4 | The females evolve to be larger and brighter coloured than the males , and control harems of dull-coloured egg-sitters , competing for their domestic skills against other acquisitive and territorial females . |
| 5 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 6 | THERE is a burst of late season sailing activity with the Ruffian Class competing for their Northern Ireland title at Carrickfergus Sailing Club and the GP14 Class holding their Autumn Open at East Down Yacht Club . |
| 7 | So dairy farmers look likely to be gainers under the new regime , particularly as several new groups will be competing for their milk . |
| 8 | Prices have dropped to a reasonable level , and we have buyers competing for them , with gazumping going on . |
| 9 | The boys ' behaviour is their way of protesting at these changes and competing for your affection and attention . |
| 10 | With so many companies competing for your attention it can be difficult deciding which is the one for you . |
| 11 | In fact , the choice is so wide that your problem may be one of bewilderment — how are you to pick the ideal model from the dozens competing for your custom ? |
| 12 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 13 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 14 | Ambassador had a month off from competing for his stud duties , but otherwise his preparation was not much different from any other event horse , with hill work figuring largely in his fittening programme . |
| 15 | The next year , 1965 , he had his choice of three F1 teams competing for his services and chose BRM : as he has said , he wanted to be in a team ‘ where they would n't rush me , a team where I would n't be battling for my place every time I took the grid , a team where I could learn from a man like Graham Hill ’ . |
| 16 | Was n't he enjoying this journey , with two women competing for his attention ? |
| 17 | Only she , of all the women , seemed not to be competing for his attention . |
| 18 | Channel 4 eased the pressure for space , but also led to more programmes competing for it . |
| 19 | That money in the consumer 's pocket : who else is competing for it ? |
| 20 | Difficulties were experienced in the provision of construction workers since labour was scarce in Siberia , and the mine administration was competing for it as well . |
| 21 | We both need a break but I ca n't afford a holiday and you would n't believe the hassle of organizing for her to go into a home for a fortnight . |
| 22 | Reluctantly , I give Sandy Lyle little chance , not helped by his wife ( a non-golfer ) caddying for him , while David Feherty , Steve Richardson , Colin Montgomerie and Gary Wolstenholme will be hoping just to do their best ; the top 24 , giving an automatic place next year , is probably their aim . |
| 23 | Caddying for him was his boss , David Powell , a scratch player himself and former Gloucestershire captain . |
| 24 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 25 | He had Jimmy Dickinson caddying for him , but Jimmy caddies for Jack Nicklaus in the Ryder Cup . |
| 26 | I approached him and asked him about caddying for him , and I was very pleased when he said yes . |
| 27 | I see , and did you , did you do a lot of canvassing for them and all this sort of thing ? |
| 28 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Second , despite the state 's vast law-enforcement apparatus it appears increasingly incapable of securing and maintaining for its citizens the wholesomeness and amenity of their physical environment , or even the long-term physical well-being of the citizens themselves . |
| 30 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |