Example sentences of "[vb infin] what he be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He did n't know what he was looking for . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | He did n't know what he was lying for . |
| 7 | I du n no what he 's looking for — maybe he lost summat . |
| 8 | The social anthropologist can find what he is looking for in either . |
| 9 | Reynolds had only the vaguest memory of his search of the Evergreens , but he thought he could find what he was looking for . |
| 10 | He obviously did n't find what he was looking for , because he pushed her none too gently out of the way , then strode into the small room at the back of the house , where she slept . |