Example sentences of "they 're [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children at Wanborough primary school near Swindon are so worried about the hazards they experience on the way to school , they 're calling for a new footpath . |
| 2 | This time they 're hoping for a happier ending . |
| 3 | And they 're looking for a nice house to put them on . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're looking for a first-class professional journalist . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think they 're looking for a battered glamour boy , ’ Scott said . |
| 6 | They 're looking for a written documents , full stop . |
| 7 | On the other hand , do n't go looking too battered : they are n't looking for Walter Huston , they 're looking for a younger , well-scrubbed , cheerfully confident Robert Mitchum . ’ |
| 8 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
| 9 | Now I think it would be helpful if the borough council could clarify whether that is in fact what they 're looking for an additional land allocation . |
| 10 | they 're looking for an old boy eighteen to twenty five who was like a carpenter or a plumber who 's actually learnt a trade but he said the trouble is , he said |
| 11 | on form you have to fancy Scunthorpe … they 're pushing for a top spot … but United have got to find some winning form sooner or later … |
| 12 | I believe the professional thieves are more ethical at least they 're stealing for a practical reason , not just for kicks . |
| 13 | If they 're going for a secluded house or a house where there 's plenty of trees and you ca n't see |
| 14 | They 're heading for an English style village that 's being built just north of Tokyo . |