Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 2 | It also plays host to a number of strange , ghostly occurrences according to a book I belong to Glasgow by Bill Hamilton and Gordon Carsely , from which I am most obliged for the information . |
| 3 | I am still searching for the answer to that one . |
| 4 | No , I 'm just joking for the tape . |
| 5 | I 'm just looking for the biographical summary Ellis has given me . |
| 6 | I will , I 'm just looking for the |
| 7 | As for me — well — I 'm just coming for the ride . ’ |
| 8 | Mm oh I 'm pleased about that , I 'm just waiting for the wedding bells , I said to Robert I said if they ca n't get any one to witness it , I said we 'll be there , , he said , well you I said what do you mean ? |
| 9 | I 'm just waiting for the coffee , you sort out what you 're doing . |
| 10 | I 'm just investigating for the company er going onto radio . |
| 11 | I 'm not prepared for the deafening ‘ bang ’ as the sides of the box collapse and my moment of entry is masked by puthers of ‘ smoke ’ . |
| 12 | I 'm not looking for the exotic in my photographs . |
| 13 | I 'm not looking for the exotic in my photographs . |
| 14 | Well I 'm not arguing for the exclusion of eleven , I 'm just trying to er give a balanced interpretation as to how it should be assessed . |
| 15 | You mean I 'm not heading for the end of me . |
| 16 | You mean I 'm not heading for the end of me . |
| 17 | I 'm always looking for the positive thing in any situation . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I 'm really looking for the people who told my fortune at the Puck Fair , ’ I said . |
| 19 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 20 | I 'm still heading for the hills . |
| 21 | Anyway I 'm still waiting for the postman . |
| 22 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 23 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 24 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 25 | Over the past few years , the quality of in-service training courses for teachers has improved greatly , but I was n't prepared for the effort [ and financial resources ] that had obviously been put into the ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 26 | ‘ I was n't heading for the exit ! |
| 27 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 28 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
| 29 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 30 | I was about to head for the lift when I noticed a chink of light at the end of the corridor . |