Example sentences of "[indef pn] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their recent blockbusting Belfast 1991 production at the Group Theatre left everyone clamouring for more . |
| 2 | That 's what everyone applying for that job will pitch . |
| 3 | At this point , someone searching for a simple definition of pragmatics is likely to be exhausted . |
| 4 | Mrs Bennett of West Yorkshire made a similar complaint about Lovejoy : the character ‘ warned an acquaintance that someone looking for him ‘ wants his balls on a fork' . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If we do n't return them , ’ I say , ‘ Mama 's gon na notice her boys ai n't back , and she 's gon na send someone looking for them . ’ |
| 6 | There 's someone looking for him . ’ |
| 7 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 8 | ‘ I must admit I find it hard to believe that you do n't have someone waiting for you . ’ |
| 9 | Did you know there 's someone waiting for you at Radio Nottingham 's reception , Pudsey Bear is sitting there waiting for you to take him home . |
| 10 | Presumably you have worked out the cost of someone caring for the child while you are earning a living . |
| 11 | The special analyst they got for Italia 90 was Docherty , and he was , on the whole , pretty pathetic ( although I was amazed when , during England- Cameroun , he stated that England was playing terribly ; did n't expect this from someone commenting for a TV audience which was solidly pro-England ) . |
| 12 | Nothing is more irritating than to have someone speaking for you when you are quite able to speak for yourself . |
| 13 | ‘ Why , it sounded like someone crying for help , ’ thought Deborah . |
| 14 | Next door , through the partition wall , some shouts were audible , so muffled it was impossible to tell whether it was a violent assault or someone asking for his bath to be turned off . |
| 15 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 16 | Someone asking for you and Rudy . |
| 17 | Anyone in doubt about the identity of someone collecting for charity should check with the organisation they claim to be with . |
| 18 | As the British Airways Boeing 757 twin-engined jet touched down on Runway 27 Left at Heathrow at 8.33 a.m. , Adam concluded that there would probably be someone watching for him at the shuttle terminal . |
| 19 | And it suggests the driving force — or someone working for him — has a good knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe . ’ |
| 20 | He must ha , he was looking , somebody looking for a house . |
| 21 | Overlook the oddball Cynos badge on the back ( Cynos is derived from cynosure , or centre of attention ) and the cute rear-drive Toyota coupe has plenty going for it . |
| 22 | ‘ He wo n't last because there 's nobody waiting for him and you know what conditions are like in there . |
| 23 | And they could find themselves with , you know , somebody asking for a thousand of an item and it 's well worth their while therefore , spending a bit of money getting it there . |
| 24 | What time is somebody coming for you ? |
| 25 | Yeah , but the other thing was , it was n't that , towards the end of the programme , they were n't so much who fired first , its , erm , there is , there is no evidence either way to support either story , the Irish say there was no Government , there was nobody running for Government you know , said that they had three |
| 26 | I was thinking particularly of my great-uncle George , the stories he had told , men pulled out of the sea half burned alive , the sudden explosions as another slow cargo vessel slid to the bottom , nobody stopping for survivors and the feeling of terror as the U-boats gradually picked the ships off until the one he was on was alone in the pattern . |
| 27 | Well we thought it was either a rent man or somebody collecting for the council . |
| 28 | ‘ Could it be somebody working for Connelly with an axe to grind ? ’ asked Martin Bates , running his finger around the rim of his glass . |
| 29 | Brando would keep everyone waiting for twenty minutes . |
| 30 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |