Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 2 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 3 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 4 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 5 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 6 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 7 | This er committee is fighting for inside the National Health Service , and I think we should make that clear . |
| 8 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |