Example sentences of "[v-ing] for money " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking for money THOSE not up to the London Marathon can instead walk for charity in aid of Enterprise Neptune , the National Trust 's appeal to save unspoilt countryside . |
| 2 | ISF officials are selecting researchers on the basis of the quality and quantity of their published output ( see Nature 362 , 95 ; 1993 ) , although only a portion of the 35,000 who are eligible are applying for money to keep their laboratories going . |
| 3 | ‘ Wo n't even look at 'er new battleaxe , ’ grumbled Ginger as they went on their way looking for money . |
| 4 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 5 | And that is why , th with the government talking about , and they 're talking about authority why should they be looking for money from anywhere , when after all , the youth of today are the pensioners to , of tomorrow , and it 's only our duty to look after them . |
| 6 | Canetti , for example , could n't imagine writing for money . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's screwing for money , Jack . |
| 8 | According to the National Consumer council , funding for money advice centres is inadequate and support from the credit industry is insufficient . |
| 9 | What are they doing for money ? was Alice 's thought , kept to herself . |
| 10 | and he knows he 's not like you doing for money , cos I sha n't be very pleased |
| 11 | In the nearest modern marketing has come to the skin-flintery of Ebenezer Scrooge , a growing number of American shopping malls have picked the Christmas season to ban the Salvation Army from ringing its bells and asking for money for its traditional Big Red Kettle collection boxes . |
| 12 | ‘ Here we have Wren Boys who dress up and go from door to door asking for money , every St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said . |
| 13 | asking for money without explaining what it is for |
| 14 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm asking for money , ’ I replied , my cheeks red . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not just asking for money , though , are you ? ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ You are asking for money , I suppose , ’ he said frostily . |
| 18 | Much as she dreaded the near embarrassment of asking for money , the West Bog and its drainage was the best and readiest solution to their problem . |
| 19 | They should not feel aggrieved at her asking for money ; when she went into the cold hall she felt that it would not give her back much , if anything . |
| 20 | ‘ He was asking for money . ’ |
| 21 | In that first parliament of his , immediately after his coronation , he had refrained from asking for money , had even prided himself on his princely forbearance , and believed it had won him friends and trust . |
| 22 | ‘ He had some of our headed notepaper with a photograph of himself and was asking for money from people in Balmoral Avenue . |
| 23 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 24 | Little urchins tugging on our coat tails , miming eating , asking for money like some white-skinned version of a miniature beggar in a Calcutta slum . |
| 25 | I 'm not asking for money or taking anything from you . |
| 26 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 27 | All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work . |
| 28 | You feel you 're begging for money … |
| 29 | TRADE unionists have hit out at letters to hospital workers which they claim are ‘ begging for money ’ to fund the health service . |
| 30 | TRADE unionists have hit out at letters which they claim are ‘ begging for money ’ from hospital workers to fund the health service . |