Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we continue to study it and are looking for the right vehicle . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 4 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 5 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 6 | I 'm waiting for the right moment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You were waiting for the right person . ’ |
| 8 | Almost everyone concerned with education is looking for the right direction to go , and there is much talk of leadership . |
| 9 | She was stumbling for the right words . |
| 10 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 11 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
| 12 | I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise . |