Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 3 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 4 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 5 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
| 6 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 7 | Now we ask er the club to supply er in between us signing them up for to do the cards to them to the consultant erm er getting there getting there to do the assignment could be five or six months . |
| 8 | Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool . |
| 9 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 10 | Spends his life trading paintings for a glass of wine and a fuck ; a hundred years later , some toffee-nosed clown at Sotheby 's is knocking them out for upwards of eight million . |
| 11 | He had actually taken the trouble of ruling them out for all his business contacts as well . |
| 12 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 13 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 14 | IAN RUSH is gearing himself up for ‘ the best year of my life . ’ |
| 15 | I just worry , as usual , that I shall be mopping you up for months to come . ’ |
| 16 | You 're spelling everything out for them , 'cos the poor dears are n't very bright , are they ? |
| 17 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 18 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 19 | Soon afterwards , however , Ellcock became the ‘ nearly man ’ again , entering hospital for further surgery to remove the screws that had snapped in his back , ruling him out for the rest of the summer and , ultimately , despite encouraging practice sessions with the England A party last winter , the immediate future . |
| 20 | Ipswich were unfortunate to lose winger Jeremy English with fractured ribs , ruling him out for the remainder of the season . |
| 21 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
| 22 | They clear the remaining forest by fire , opening it up for their own agriculture , or to hand over to cattle ranchers . |
| 23 | and banging it out for one |
| 24 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 25 | I never , it 's your fault she driving it around for five months with no tax . |
| 26 | Just checking it over for test . |
| 27 | After all that psyching myself up for it . |
| 28 | If I 'm making a film of myself and I 'm on probation , at the end of the year I can pass or fail or have my probation extended because I 'm not successful enough to be called a qualified teacher , then I 'm opening myself up for people to come and look at my mistakes . |
| 29 | Instead , she 's got Tommy and Iain dancing around her flat to UB40 at full volume , heavy on the bass , psyching themselves up for another night of action on the by-ways of Pinner Green . |
| 30 | In two seconds you 'd be wanting me back for something . " |