Example sentences of "[pron] 're [adv] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're just looking for matching patterns to co-ordinate with room furnishings , however , there 's an increasingly wide range of totally co-ordinated wallpapers and borders available to go with curtain fabrics , bed linen , and even soft furnishing fabrics which can be bought by the metre . |
| 2 | I said you 're not working for forty pound a week |
| 3 | Well you 're not working for three days , you 've got three days off ! |
| 4 | Because when you are 12,000 miles away you 're not playing for any country . |
| 5 | you 're not paying for that are you ? |
| 6 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 7 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
| 8 | Otherwise you might be desperate to get awa to do something , or get away on holiday , but you 're still waiting for that big win . |
| 9 | So you 're actually looking for one thing ? |
| 10 | Because , look at , I 'm not , you know , I 'm not er gon na even talk about the disaster at airport things , you know , the taking off and landing , if you 've got a stadium nearby with a lot of people in it , and one of these disasters happened to happen , I know we 're not looking for that , but if it does , you 're gon na have a stadium full of people if a plane comes down , well , you know . |
| 11 | Well we 're not looking for those anyway are we ? |
| 12 | So we 're not looking for little every little error that a person makes . |
| 13 | Therefore , we 're not , other than the specific items that appear on your additions list , we 're not looking for any growth in the base budget at this stage , over and above that that 's already built into your budget base . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't get me wrong — we 're not asking for any favours from the referee , ’ said the inspirational Leeds midfielder . |
| 15 | ‘ You have n't been listening , Claudia ; we 're not parting for one moment until I find Garry — and it 's time you called me Roman . ’ |
| 16 | Now , we 're just waiting for 3414 to finish the conversation . |
| 17 | We 're all ready , we 're just waiting for this gravy now |
| 18 | But we 're still perplexed as to how the accident could have happened and we 're still looking for any motive for murder or suicide . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 're still waiting for this body , ’ says the man with the braid from Tayside , the boys officially in charge . |
| 20 | So we 're only looking for fourteen businesses on each assignment . |
| 21 | We are very big and therefore we 're only looking for big business , is that , is that fair comment ? |
| 22 | So we 're only asking for five hundred years . |
| 23 | So they 're probably looking for both fossil fuels which includes gas . |
| 24 | They 're simply asking for more money to spent with no concerns about the value for money , and surely it was the Conservatives who used to tell us ten or fifteen years ago , that you could n't judge the quality of a service by the amount of money spent on it . |
| 25 | Yet I think the borough council gave some clear hints they 're maybe looking for additional land allocation . |
| 26 | And they 're still looking for more . |
| 27 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 28 | They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and |
| 29 | Erm if it 's um well generally speaking I think , thinking about what the sort of consensus would be among people who who study this sort of thing , they 're usually looking for some sort of of discrepancy in ages or powers or something . |
| 30 | So they 're always looking for some intriguing way of saying metaphorically , ‘ Hey ! |