Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So dairy farmers look likely to be gainers under the new regime , particularly as several new groups will be competing for their milk . |
| 6 | The boys ' behaviour is their way of protesting at these changes and competing for your affection and attention . |
| 7 | With so many companies competing for your attention it can be difficult deciding which is the one for you . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Was n't he enjoying this journey , with two women competing for his attention ? |
| 14 | Only she , of all the women , seemed not to be competing for his attention . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I need your help , " he said slowly , putting the finishing touches to the snowman he was building for his sister . |
| 18 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 19 | and I fumbling for my key . |
| 20 | Yep fumbling for my key . |
| 21 | A large woman who is not apologising for her size is certainly not a figure to invite the dominant meanings which our culture attaches to femininity . |
| 22 | The House of Love admitted it themselves , apologising for their shyness , because after all , this was the biggest gig yet . |
| 23 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 24 | Strangely , for a man fighting for sport 's most brutal crown , Bowe finds himself apologising for his obvious lack of aggression in the countdown to his day of destiny . |
| 25 | ‘ In reaching its verdict , the commission accepted Mr Jones has issued a press statement apologising for his participation in the video and that he had been misled and badly advised , but that his actions were irresponsible . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ was what he said , however , apologising for his tears . |
| 27 | They settled with their drinks at the corner table and the young man shook hands with Patrick , apologising for his bad manners . |
| 28 | He was in a curiously elegiac mood , moving soft on silken feet in deference to the sadness in the place , now and then touching a tree or a still-surviving piece of stone in a placating greeting , apparently apologising for his presence . |
| 29 | He 'd disarmed her earlier on by profusely apologising for his role in the near-collision with the Kestrel . |
| 30 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |