Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [be] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may have a requirement where they are looking for a very high return on capital employed and need to attract and retain the very best people in order to achieve that . |
| 2 | Total secrecy surrounded the morning surgery in Nottingham 's Queen 's Medical Centre where he was treated for an arm injury two years ago , after falling from his polo pony . |
| 3 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 4 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 5 | Okay , so I was looking for a politically active , fat , drunk kleptomaniac . |
| 6 | And as you have pointed out , when I take the lovely Miss Ingram as my bride , you and Adèle must leave the house , so I 'm looking for a new job for you . ’ |
| 7 | She grew up associating ‘ love ’ with an emotional roller-coaster , and although she was looking for a long-term partner , Deborah quickly became bored and dissatisfied in a stable relationship . |
| 8 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ So you 're looking for a local man , a Loner , someone who has a night job , the use of a car or van and a knowledge of Hymns Ancient and Modern . |
| 10 | Okay so you 're looking for a house or |
| 11 | Joan Daniels ' term of office expires at the 1987 Annual General Meeting , so we are looking for a new treasurer . |
| 12 | ‘ At least it is dry now so we are aiming for a real performance . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , hopefully we 'll get a big crowd today , Ron Atkinson 's coming to present the , the new strip before the game , so we 're hoping for a big crowd . |
| 14 | ‘ So we 're going for a walk , I take it ? |
| 15 | The Class 50 refurbishment programme was completed , although they are destined for a short life , while limited work was also carried out on Class 20s , 26s and 33s to see them through to the arrival of new designs . |
| 16 | Throughout his time at university , Gedge was still seeing Janet Rigby , although they were separated for a year while she finished her ‘ A ’ Levels in Middleton . |
| 17 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 18 | Not as such so they 're pressing for an answer , the factory , but erm , he came back and said we 'd need firm prices , per kilo price , lump sum price not acceptable , customer offer of sixteen Deutschmark per kilo from , for twelve to fourteen with delivery , your request for those credit verified five months not acceptable , you offer to deliver in eight weeks in which case and we 'd get till twelve weeks , please confirm . |
| 19 | You will have to weigh it again once it is stuffed for an exact time . |
| 20 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 21 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 22 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 23 | I 'm about to invest in a brand new , superduper , anti-obsolescence computer and I feel as confident as if I were shopping for a pair of skis . |
| 24 | And occasionally if I was looking for a magazine to buy , it would get a lot of i good information in it too . |
| 25 | At £12,260 the Aura TD is not particularly cheap but it would certainly be near the top of my shopping list if I was looking for a medium-sized diesel hatchback . |
| 26 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 27 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 28 | But if someone 's looking for an unusual night spot On Grace there was , after all , not so very much to be done . |
| 29 | Mm , yeah , sounds like she 's looking for a paid holiday . |
| 30 | For some types of shot models will do their own hair and make-up , but if you are acting for a manufacturer of hair preparations or beauty products you will probably need to use a hair stylist and a make-up artist . |