Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] he be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead . |
| 2 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 3 | I do n't know what he was looking for , some guilt , some shame , some scandal , I do n't know — but it just is n't there , I suppose . |
| 4 | No movement that he could see , with or without the aid of the binoculars — but then he did n't really know what he was looking for , whilst Windeler had seemed far more assured . |
| 5 | He did n't know what he was looking for . |
| 6 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |
| 7 | He did n't know what he was lying for . |
| 8 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 9 | From November ‘ 74 he began to find what he was looking for . |
| 10 | And as this notion made his mouth curve upward in amusement at his optimism , he found what he was searching for . |
| 11 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 12 | At last he found what he was looking for : horses had stood there . |
| 13 | ‘ When he told me he was panning for gold , I simply did n't believe it . |
| 14 | I told him he was looking for the mother he 'd never had , but of course he would n't listen . |
| 15 | Hagans told him he was waiting for his girlfriend . |
| 16 | Soon as you said you ca n't do it he were gone for dust ! |
| 17 | One of the country 's leading experts on the secret services says the evidence confirms what he 's known for some time . |
| 18 | She hated what he was trained for . |
| 19 | Look what he 's doing for Leeds United nowadays ? |
| 20 | I rather admired what he 's doing for Margaret because , as far as I can see , he 's taking er as she 's not able , as far as I can see , to er exist , to live on her own and he seems to be taking over from elderly parents . |
| 21 | ‘ We know who he was working for , anyway . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 23 | You know what he 's waiting for ? |
| 24 | At last Hazel heard what he was listening for ; a rabbit — or was it two ? — approaching from the wood . |
| 25 | I do n't think he finds what he 's looking for , cos after he looks in all the bins he goes off without taking nothing out . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'll start doing what he was bought for — scoring goals . ’ |
| 27 | I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club . |
| 28 | We knew what he was looking for and it was n't there . |
| 29 | Edouard knew what he was looking for , a Picasso , a Matisse , whose medium was not paint but rare stones and precious metals ; the genius who would be the linchpin of his whole enterprise . |
| 30 | Other methods of meeting the organisation 's needs were considered , but Mr Nabakov knew what he was looking for : ‘ I wanted a nuts and bolts accounting system , like Platinum , and it is also highly flexible . |