Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension . |
| 2 | Well I 'm staying up for one more game |
| 3 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 4 | I 'm going down for that job ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going down for another , ’ shouts Pa over the howl of the cleaner . |
| 6 | so I 'm going in for twelve and finish for eight |
| 7 | I said oh I feel I 'm going out for half an hour that 's all . |
| 8 | I just went through and said , " I 'm going out for some cigarettes , " and went out , and I 've never been back . |
| 9 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 10 | Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home . |
| 11 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 12 | ‘ But you are making up for that today , ’ said Dr Neil gravely , his mouth twitching , particularly when she looked at him , a question on her pretty face , her mouth being too full for further speech . |
| 13 | But go up to your room and get your bag packed for what you , ready for you 're not going straight to Leanne 's you 're coming back for half hour or so ? |
| 14 | ‘ She 's getting on for twenty-one years old , and perfectly capable of looking after herself . ’ |
| 15 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 16 | Well she 's coming back for more . |
| 17 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 18 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 19 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 20 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 21 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 22 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 23 | look it does n't matter now because we 're going out for some milk , here |
| 24 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 25 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 26 | ‘ We were getting on for ten when we liked it , ’ Finch said . |
| 27 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 28 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 29 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 30 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |