Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beware the hackneyed navy suit , unless you can brighten it with a colourful blouse or you 're applying for a job in the City . |
| 2 | Then there are the would-be breeders — who have a pair ( or think they have ) but no fry , or who are looking for a mate for a much-loved large cichlid ( usually an Oscar or Severum ) . |
| 3 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , that 's an artful way to get me to wait on you , ’ interrupted Sally-Anne frankly , ‘ and I suppose , since you are so cunning , and I am dying for a drink , you might have your way — perhaps a bonus on my wages might be an idea , seeing that I shall be doing this out of hours . ’ |
| 5 | Aycliffe and I are trying for a way to have the will stand . |
| 6 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 7 | and I 'm looking for a new manager . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm working on my own house at the moment and I 'm waiting for a grant off the Housing . |
| 9 | Yes , so it 's , you know , it 's like two mailshots up once a quarter or whatever , minutes , and I 'm paying for a lunch . |
| 10 | And also , if if if you 're in an area like me and mine 's , if I ring my local police station , Eastwood and I 'm paying for a trunk call or an out of area call , costing me twice as much |
| 11 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 12 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 13 | It will : identify your belongings from those of other people that may also be in the removal van ; enable you and your friends , or the removal men , to put the boxes in the right rooms ( i.e. anything labelled ‘ crockery ’ in the kitchen ) , this saves sorting it out later on ; and it will enable you to lay your hands quickly on the teapot when it is all over and you are gasping for a cuppa ! |
| 14 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 15 | After you 've swapped your pounds for punts , and you 're looking for a bed to rest your jet-lagged body try Isaac 's , a comfortable hotel in Frenchman 's Lane . |
| 16 | So she jumped up , grabbed the pencil and everything , she got a screwdriver first , I thought she were gon na stab me with screwdriver and she were looking for a pencil |
| 17 | Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) . |
| 18 | I 'm in a band and we 're looking for a gig . |
| 19 | Oh wanted a word with you see how much money you 've been putting in my , and we 're going for a mortgage now . |
| 20 | And it was quite quiet for a little bit because most of them had established themselves and we were waiting for a breakout and er we did n't get on the move again until the they went through the after it had been . |
| 21 | He chose a wonderful day , a really glorious day , and we were going for a picnic , there were blue skies and white sand , and he asked me to marry him . |
| 22 | Well I mean , if we 're talking about sort of and they 're looking for a sense of identity of whatever it is that they 're having of |
| 23 | And they 're looking for a nice house to put them on . |
| 24 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
| 25 | Well they was here , was it , two minutes after one and they was begging for a . |
| 26 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
| 27 | A decade on he wants to return to the islands and he 's advertising for a Herefordshire woman to accompany him . |
| 28 | Ooh , he was funny though , he was coming like that , and he 's dying for a stroke |
| 29 | The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life . |
| 30 | We had a motion which was put before Conference last year and it was carried and it was asking for a similar review to what 's being asked for this morning . |