Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were looking for an instrument of murder . |
| 3 | And perhaps they were hoping for an innocence that was long past both of them … |
| 4 | They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country . |
| 5 | They were fighting for an objective which was far more important than local arrangements or local agreements er with er foreign imperial powers about who governed what er in , in their own country . |