Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] for this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A paying consumer at least feels he or she can say , ‘ I am paying for this service . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm looking for this girl . |
| 3 | Oh it 's not a case of putting the world to rights I 'm looking for this bacon |
| 4 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 5 | How long have you been waiting for this car , a while have n't you Spen ? |
| 6 | Now Right now as , as we 've seen that you , you 're looking for this money for your daughter 's future |
| 7 | If you 're looking for this cross , I hope you find it . |
| 8 | You 're paying for this boy . |
| 9 | ‘ Would you be looking for this girl , by any chance ? ’ |
| 10 | She were knocking for this thing you know . |
| 11 | If you were selecting for this year 's prize who would you put forward ? |
| 12 | The additional money that we 're looking for this year er a substantial amount of this will go to funding of the rent for the new premises for the c the Citizens ' Advice Bureau and I do n't propose to stand here and defend the Citizens ' Advice Bureau because it does n't need it , I hope . |
| 13 | On top of that the new point to point season is off and running and that 's where we 're going for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 14 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 15 | If we were searching for this record , a comparison with the ‘ key ’ of the first block would be low , and of the second , high . |
| 16 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |
| 17 | Erm now , so he said erm that 's what they 're aiming for this thing that they want them to do on May the eighteenth plus a sponsorship walk on the sixth of June |
| 18 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 19 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 20 | ‘ Did he say anything about where he was going for this meeting ? ’ |