Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 3 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 4 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 5 | Trading in for a smaller house or flat again releases considerable capital , which is often shared with the offspring . |
| 6 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 7 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 8 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 9 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 10 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 11 | In LONDON dealers were gearing up for a rush of prospective buyers . |
| 12 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 13 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 14 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 15 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 16 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 17 | Check your existing lender 's redemption charge before signing up for a replacement loan . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought you might be otherwise involved — signing up for a television series , perhaps . ’ |
| 19 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 20 | It said it one of the guitar magazines I use my all the time before , before winding up for a gig , and all this sees for wrecking one of the guitars ! |
| 21 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 22 | KNOCKING AROUND for a while now . |
| 23 | So after toddling about for a while you go into Barries ’ and point out the shorts where they lie in the window , interleaved with their fellows . |
| 24 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 25 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 26 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 27 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 28 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 29 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |
| 30 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |