Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] for a [adj] " 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 | Trading in for a smaller house or flat again releases considerable capital , which is often shared with the offspring . |
| 3 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 4 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 5 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yeah , I thought you were saving up for a new game for your Sega system ? |
| 12 | Mm you basically saving up for a complete system ? |
| 13 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 17 | Company secretary Peter Nicholson said : ‘ We are currently looking out for a suitable steam locomotive but it could not be too big or heavy . |
| 18 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 19 | Looking around for a possible light , we noticed an elderly couple smoking at a nearby tables . |
| 20 | This year the charity to benefit will be the Newborn Appeal , although the organising Speke 10k Committee are still looking around for a main sponsor for the event . |
| 21 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 22 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 23 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 24 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 25 | Whilst the lawyers were still sorting out his mothers estate he started looking round for a suitable business . |
| 26 | I think I 've enough of my own without looking round for a few more . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 28 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 29 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 30 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |