Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Edie 's company Minton had drinks with H. E. Bates in 1949 , at his home at Great Chart , in connection with the illustrations he was designing for Bates 's The Country Heart , a revised compilation of his two previous books , O More than Happy Countryman and The Heart of the Country . |
| 2 | The hours you 're asking for is seven thirty pm to eleven forty five pm ? |
| 3 | And the hours you 're asking for are seven thirty P M to eleven forty five P M ? |
| 4 | So one of the aspects we 're looking for sometimes is recognising when we 're in a negative cycle , how you can turn that round to a positive cycle . |
| 5 | The subjects I am taking for examination are , Science , English , Mathematics , French , Physical Education , Geography and Art . |
| 6 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 7 | The referees you were looking for you |
| 8 | A lot of the books I was asking for [ from project funds ] were already in the library . |
| 9 | one view of plans to put VAT on fuel … but it 's not only the scriptwriters who are calling for John Major 's head . |
| 10 | During the months they were waiting for the divorce he came to see her nearly every day . |
| 11 | You see , you know I was talking to you earlier about , about punchlines basically , but I ca n't remember the words I was using for it , times like by the way , right right , or did you know or did I mention to you do you follow me , a lot of key lines that you can think on that you use |
| 12 | Just to make it extra easy , here are the words you 're looking for : EVERTON , PLAYER , BY , PLAYER , ALEX , YOUNG , PETER , REID , GUINNESS , BOOKS . |
| 13 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 14 | Edward 's trouble was that the tell-tales he was looking for , the subtle marks of treachery , were the main — and open — subject of the conversation . |
| 15 | I mean it may well be we 'll say in year seven , look the things we 're looking for here and I want everybody to comment on is , A er , how well they 've settled down er how well they 're getting on with others but there 's no reason why you ca n't make those decisions . |
| 16 | After all the things we 're doing for you . |
| 17 | Remember that one of the things we are looking for is the ability to implement solutions . |
| 18 | It 's one of the things we were demonstrating for last week . ’ |
| 19 | I have a neighbour with a toddler who was outgrowing several of the things I was looking for ; the pram came from her , and a few other things as well . |
| 20 | Ken persuaded him to cut the portions he was making for Orton and himself into three . |
| 21 | Second , that I am not in a position of knowledge and I ca n't deliver some goods to them ; that basically , I 'm on a journey and I will hate the techniques I 'm learning for unpicking the threads of my life by becoming assertive and getting new knowledge with them . |
| 22 | It is significant that it is the Africans who are pressing for a partial lifting of the ban and the maligned fur trade has made no move in that direction . |
| 23 | I do n't like the advertisements they 're doing for the telephone now though . |
| 24 | But I 've just realised where we might find some of the answers we 're looking for . ’ |
| 25 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 26 | Some of the guys who are going for 10 million these days would n't even tie Cuntonas boots on a bad day . |
| 27 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 28 | The men they 're looking for are those with skills saleable on the black economy — plumbers , mechanics , electricians , etc . |
| 29 | But I 'll find the men I 'm looking for sooner or later . |
| 30 | An industrial tribunal heard that Michelle Mawdsley , 24 , was signed off work by her doctor because she was suffering from depression after her sister lost the babies she was carrying for her . |