Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're coming I do n't think I 'm taking for a couple of months , and then I take them every fortnight . |
| 2 | She found she was bursting for a pee , but was determined not to repeat Estelle 's performance . |
| 3 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 4 | Right if we were looking for a fifteenth , say we were looking for a fifteenth what would make |
| 5 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 6 | And then as we was coming home from Pete 's , a chap stopped us and asked us where was so I told him where was he said I 'm looking for a little black and white house I said it 's right there look ! |
| 7 | The Divisional Officer for the N U R , covering Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire , Phil McGarry says he 's looking for a fair deal : |
| 8 | ‘ You mean you 're working for a calculating machine ? ’ |
| 9 | ah look at this mum look I 'm wiping for a pound |
| 10 | He could see she was preparing for a party . |
| 11 | Lady Eleanor replied she was going for a walk behind the church . ’ |
| 12 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 13 | abolish land ownership then it would suggest they 're going for a ideologically based |
| 14 | I spect he 's waiting for a train . |
| 15 | Later , after Mother died , we heard he was looking for a sponsor and planning another solitary voyage . |
| 16 | But I must have done well the term before , or perhaps he was slacking , or both , because there we were together and Nigel as he then called himself was asking for a pound . |
| 17 | My wife , Joyce also came close and peered , but in her case I believe she was looking for a miracle . |
| 18 | ‘ I believe you 're waiting for a hip replacement . ’ |
| 19 | But Rosenthal will not be rushed into a transfer and I believe he is hoping for a cross-Channel move . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think they 're looking for a battered glamour boy , ’ Scott said . |
| 21 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 22 | Rain thought she was trying for a dramatic effect , but she was a poor actress and the result was that she looked petulant . |
| 23 | Their initial abuse would give way to laughter when they understood we were looking for a prahu which would carry us eastwards . |
| 24 | ‘ By the time I went to Devonshire I knew that there was a real hound , and I knew we were looking for a man and a woman . |
| 25 | We thought we were going for a month or so , until the fighting died down . |
| 26 | GUESTS staying in Holiday Inn hotels did n't realise they were paying for a surprise extra — a peephole for staff to spy on them in bed . |
| 27 | They originally thought they were looking for a medieval leper hospital , but then they uncovered a skeleton almost two thousand years old . |
| 28 | The hostess of the coffee place thought they were waiting for a table and corrected them for not standing in the queue . |
| 29 | Dean Bell will captain his side , Wigan , against his country , New Zealand , on Sunday , knowing he is playing for a Test place . |
| 30 | the only battleship I know about is the girl friend go away for about three months at a time and you 'd say of where 's Norman , oh he 's er working and then we all knew he 's working for a he 'd put them in the computer systems right the way throughout the ships |