Example sentences of "of [adj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you know the type of this you 're looking for , then you can get free use of paper , stamps and a telephone , in fact anything that 'll get you that ideal position . |
| 2 | In the summer of 1940 he was volunteered for parachute training by friends who added his name to a list for this course . |
| 3 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 4 | Well it 's not either of those you 're looking for . |
| 5 | Maggie had drawn a blank , none of the bodies were of those she was looking for . |
| 6 | At the age of seventeen he was playing for Antigua in the Leeward Islands tournament when he was given out caught behind . |