Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.

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1 Care Workers who are volunteers working for , or introduced to the person they care for , by a charity , and who fulfil certain conditions .
2 There are Hearthwares preparing for the journey even now . ’
3 This is particularly important if there are others bidding for the same house .
4 What if there are others waiting for us when we do reach our destination ? ’
5 ‘ You mean there are others waiting for us , ’ Jotan said .
6 As far as the consumer goods industries are concerned , there are forces pushing for greater concentration and integration .
7 When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’
8 There are many more support staff in the British National Health Service than there are people caring for patients .
9 Ca n't get to the pod , there are Gharrgoyles looking for me …
10 It can be weekly , fortnightly , monthly , or just occasionally on request but quite often we are finding that a person who 's assessed as needing help weekly , but all that we have got is fortnightly , and all of the time there are clients waiting for us to up the amount of help that we 're giving to them and , very much , it needs to be when it benefits them , and when it fits in with their lives .
11 Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc .
12 But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear .
13 There were police waiting for them in the van and they got another good beating .
14 But surely , man , y'know there 's trouble waiting for you if you try to keep any creature in bondage here ?
15 Well er there was man walking for the south end of the island to the north end to kept something for his crops .
16 They are people striving for purpose and meaning in circumstances that are usually much less than ideal and which call for constant adjustment , adaptation and redefinition .
17 It was bliss shopping for ‘ a nice bit of haslet for father 's packing-up ’ and knowing for certain that thirty-six milk checks — no more , no less — would be required each week .
18 What are houses going for in the old Yorkshire way ?
19 JE : What was Britten striving for in these sessions ?
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