Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 2 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 4 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 5 | In many cases some of the work has been done for you by previous scholars ; so , for example there is a book called Allusions in Ulysses ( which lists allusions made in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ) . |
| 6 | The Agnus is naturally the culminating variation ; in ‘ Misericorde ’ the four parts are expanded for it to six . |
| 7 | Well , to be strictly truthful , camp had already been made for us by some hi-tech realtors . |
| 8 | As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships . |
| 9 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 10 | Whether you 're saving for something in particular or a rainy day , just put your money in and it will start working for your straightaway . |
| 11 | ‘ So that means we 're looking for somebody between five and eight ? ’ |
| 12 | In a bedroom you 're looking for something at one ninety nine or two ninety nine . |
| 13 | And as police step up their investigation , they 're appealing for anyone with any information to come forward . |
| 14 | We 're with the plays , with going to the festival of course , you ca n't , you must be serious when you 're practising for something like that . |
| 15 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 16 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 17 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 18 | Had you entered January instead of Jan , the each month would have been entered for you in full . |
| 19 | Today though Her Majesty 's ambassador to Moscow visited Maxat the horse and announced that a home has been found for him at last in the Queen 's household Cavalry . |
| 20 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 21 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 22 | ‘ Will we be looking for anything in particular , sir ? ’ |
| 23 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 24 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 25 | Can you think if we have something meal facilities which has also been raised if then maybe the stage door club area could be used for something like light rehearsal space which is always in demand . |
| 26 | If you play your cards right , your job could still be waiting for you after that . ’ |
| 27 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 28 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 29 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 30 | I want you to get involved in sharing what I 'm doing for you with other folk . |