Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens . |
| 2 | Aha , the textbooks reply , you 're missing the point : what the girl is doing is seeking a replacement for the security that was roughly torn from her ; she is looking for a father who wo n't desert her . |
| 3 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 4 | She is studying for a degree , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I fear my cousin will never relinquish her claim , since she is fighting for a position that she considers to be her son 's heritage as well as her own . ’ |
| 6 | It is looking for a replacement . |
| 7 | When a vine is five years old it is rested for a while before the practice of provignage is resumed , after which the layering process may continue for upwards of fifty years . |
| 8 | The system itself is expected to be used in the form it is delivered for a period of approximately eighteen months . |
| 9 | It is playing for a draw . ’ |
| 10 | Manager Bryan Hamilton , who offered the 21-year-old Londoner the opportunity , said : ‘ He is looking for a change of direction while his athletics career is on hold and we are giving him the chance to prove his worth as a footballer . ’ |
| 11 | Maybe he is looking for a knife he can grab . |
| 12 | He is looking for a contact in each region who he can ring monthly to find out what 's happening in the Community Care field that would be of particular interest to the Voluntary sector e.g. contracts , consultations etc . |
| 13 | He is looking for a partner to retain the pub as a viable business . |
| 14 | Understandably , he is looking for a place where he can not be reached , A Retreat where he can enjoy an unearned or undeserved equilibrium . |
| 15 | He is looking for a goalkeeper , centre-back , midfielder and striker . |
| 16 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 17 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 18 | At the very least , he is hoping for a stay of execution to keep the project rolling — and jobs safe — for at least a year . |
| 19 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 20 | Dean Bell will captain his side , Wigan , against his country , New Zealand , on Sunday , knowing he is playing for a Test place . |
| 21 | He is running for a place on its ruling council in the forthcoming elections . |
| 22 | By the end , with an extended sermon on the emptiness of individualist ethics , he is pleading for a return to the benevolence in public affairs which Thatcher can not supply by nature of having been denied her mother 's breast , given the wrong sort of potty training , etc . |