Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case you 're looking for thirty five thirty six thousand which would be mister average in our company . |
| 2 | ‘ Now remember , lads , ’ he briefed them as they scuttled purposefully over the rough rocky ground , ‘ this is n't some parasite we 're searching for , it 's a Chelonian officer . |
| 3 | Ferranti-Thomson Sonar Systems UK Ltd , based in Stockport , is to use the T9000 Transputer in the Active Dipping Sonar it is developing for the Royal Navy 's £100m Merlin Anti-Submarine Warfare helicopter . |
| 4 | The young health correspondent on a new glossy mag he was freelancing for said it could be one of three things . |
| 5 | All the same , I ca n't help feeling a little anxious about this relish he is revealing for anarchy . |
| 6 | On this occasion he is posing for us with the ‘ stripper ’ in one of the kilns . |
| 7 | When police and soldiers resumed their search of the area around Cirencester Golf Course this morning they were looking for a body . |
| 8 | You know this morning you were looking for . |
| 9 | This month we 're asking for a little more . |
| 10 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 11 | Judy lives in Manchester and hires her friend 's 17-year-old daughter who 's studying for her A levels . |
| 12 | As it happened , as I say , I was apprentice at Vickers Armstrong and I moved on , quite obviously , to another firm who were looking for people like this . |
| 13 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 14 | ‘ When we stopped at Glastonbury , Mistress Rachel sent a message , God knows how , to that old witch who was waiting for us with her prophecies . |
| 15 | And for this reason we are looking for a suitable name . |
| 16 | Could that 8-way SunBox we 're looking for ( UX No 429 ) have been code named Scorpion ? |
| 17 | In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 18 | Tupper , robust in his comment as always , regarded the " employment of cheap Chinese labour as an act of treachery towards the British Nation which was fighting for its life " . |
| 19 | The paper offers a model derived from ‘ job search theory ’ which is concerned with the optimal behaviour of an unemployed individual who is searching for a suitable job in the labour market . |
| 20 | In this discussion I am taking for granted certain obvious features . |
| 21 | This time they 're hoping for a happier ending . |
| 22 | Now , competition time once again — and this time we 're looking for heroes . |
| 23 | Sylvia Andrews , breast screening services manager , said : ‘ Last year we screened 3,500 women and this time we are aiming for 4,600 . |
| 24 | This time I 'm voting for Greenpeace . |
| 25 | This time he 's going for it . |
| 26 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 27 | Switching the engine off , he leaned over and kissed her again , and this time she was waiting for him , kissing him back with an inner longing . |
| 28 | ‘ Come on , it 's high time we were heading for home ourselves . |
| 29 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 30 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |